Martin Amidu has accused the Office of the Special Prosecutor of deliberately withholding critical information from the public regarding INTERPOL’s suspension and removal of the Red Notice issued for Ken Ofori-Atta.
Amidu said the OSP’s usual practice is to “use media conferences to try suspects in the court of public opinion,” yet the office failed to disclose that INTERPOL had notified Ghana of Ofori-Atta’s petition to challenge the Red Notice.
“When the issue inured to the benefit of Mr. Ofori-Atta, the OSP suppressed the facts,” Amidu stated. He described this as “a clear attempt to hide information that would have exposed incompetence within the Office.”
He said the public only became aware of the removal after the media “independently discovered that the Red Notice had disappeared from the INTERPOL website.”
The OSP later acknowledged receiving notices from INTERPOL’s Commission for the Control of Files in October and early November 2025.
Amidu argued that the timing of those notifications, coming amid public debate on alleged procedural lapses, may explain why the OSP refused to reveal them earlier.
He warned that such concealment “damages public trust and undermines the legitimacy of any ongoing or future corruption investigations.”
