Lawyer, lecturer, and public speaker Maurice Ampaw has alleged that President John Mahama has already resolved to remove Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng from office, framing the recent petition filed by lawyer Martin Kpebu as part of a calculated political operation designed to hasten the dismissal.
Speaking in an interview, Ampaw argued that the petition was “not an independent civic action,” but rather “a well-timed, carefully engineered move” by forces around the Presidency determined to push Agyebeng out.
“Mahama has made up his mind to sack the Special Prosecutor,” Ampaw declared. “So what Martin Kpebu did was just a set-up, and Kissi Agyebeng has fallen right into it.”
According to him, the sudden shift in the posture of the Special Prosecutor’s office is evidence that the institution has become entangled in partisan politics. Ampaw said the NDC loudly applauded Agyebeng when his investigations targeted NPP appointees. However, now that the political pendulum has swung, those same voices are “desperately trying to frustrate him.”
“When Agyebeng was going after NPP appointees, the NDC members were happy,” Ampaw observed. “Now the tables have turned, and they are finding ways to sack him.”
Ampaw warned that such instability and politically driven institutional attacks pose a major risk to Ghana’s democratic order.
“We are beginning to see a pattern where every government wants to reset the system to suit its agenda,” he said. “This destroys continuity, weakens institutions, and creates dangerous levels of political revenge.”
