Journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has released detailed travel records of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and Ernest Darko Akore, highlighting security gaps he says exist because the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) did not formally request that either man be placed on the national stop-list.
According to information he gathered from the Ghana Immigration Service and other security agencies, Ofori-Atta departed Ghana on January 4, 2025, via United Airlines Flight 997 to Washington, D.C., travelling on a Ghanaian passport with valid visas to the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Azure further noted that Akore left the country earlier, on November 19, 2024, on Delta Airlines Flight 156 to New York, using a ten-year U.S. passport that remains valid until 2031.
He explained that without a stop-list directive, border officials cannot legally prevent the two from entering or exiting the country. Security officers interviewed also questioned the OSP’s reliance on airline manifests, saying such data often arrives too late to be operationally effective.
Azure warned that while Ofori-Atta’s public profile makes unnoticed re-entry unlikely, Akore could move through airports or land borders undetected.
He added that security agencies cannot be blamed for any failure to arrest the two since no institution has instructed them to take action, even as the OSP pursues Interpol assistance.
He said his intervention aims to provide factual clarity as public debate intensifies about accountability in the SML matter and the OSP’s approach to enforcement.
