OSP Still Relevant in Anti-Corruption Fight — Inusah Fuseini

Former Tamale Central MP, Inusah Fuseini, has cautioned the Majority Caucus in Parliament against hastily pushing for the abolition of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), arguing that Ghana’s fight against corruption remains far from won.

His comments follow renewed calls from the Majority Group, led by its leader Mahama Ayariga, to scrap the OSP and return the full mandate for prosecuting corruption-related offences to the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice.

Mr. Ayariga, while speaking on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, December 4, questioned what he described as the OSP’s limited effectiveness despite reportedly receiving greater budgetary allocations than the Attorney-General’s Department. He proposed that the office could be dissolved through either a private member’s bill or an executive-led amendment.

However, Inusah Fuseini says such a move would be misguided and premature. Speaking to Citi News, he stressed that Ghana is still struggling to make meaningful gains in the anti-corruption fight, making it unwise to abolish a key institution created specifically to address the issue.

“Nothing has convinced me that we need to cancel the anti-corruption agency, and it is because we have not succeeded in fighting corruption. Have we? If we had succeeded, the office would have been redundant,” he argued.

He emphasized that the OSP—currently led by Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng—deserves more time, resources, and political backing to demonstrate its full potential.

“We have not succeeded, and we are still going after people alleged to be involved in corrupt acts. So nothing has changed, and the OSP is trying his best,” Fuseini added.

His comments inject a different perspective into the growing national debate over the future of the OSP, an institution established in 2018 to independently investigate and prosecute corruption cases without political interference.