We join many Ghanaians in wondering what the Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng could be doing in his office now as corruption and sleaze drown government.
It does not appear that he is too busy as not to see, hear or read about the many stories of alleged corruption levelled against government appointees.
With a series of sizzling, as it were, cases of alleged corruption reported against government appointees, we expect that the Special Prosecutor would have lapped on these occurrences to make his office relevant. Many have juxtaposed his fat budget, recurrent, against the output of the office and concluded that it is a waste. The time for him to prove the relevance of the Office is sure now.
The World Cup visa scandal and then the Ablakwa evacuation debacle would have been wonderful opportunities to engage the media, his stock-in-trade, to make his office important and to erase the notion that he is choosing and picking which cases to make noise about. His preference is those involving non-government actors – New Patriotic Party (NPP) most preferred.
In previous times, he would have hosted press conferences to prompt media trial of the aforementioned cases. What has watered the excitement with which he responded to political cases, especially as they related to non-National Democratic Congress (NDC) actors?
Accusations have been levelled against him for, as his accusers put it, choosing and picking which cases to host press conferences on.
When the then President Akufo-Addo conceptualised the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) and proceeded to let it be, he expected that the war against corruption and other sleazy cases would have been dealt a crushing blow by it.
This we have not seen under the present leadership, the Office failing to live up to expectation.
One day a government would prompt a discourse over whether or not the OSP should continue to live or be shut down, because it is all but a drain on the public kitty.
Is it that we are in a hurry? Perhaps Kissi is in the process of preparing the charge sheets against the Sports Minister and the ORAL-bruised Foreign Affairs Minister?
So much time has elapsed since the graft cases became public knowledge, and we are good to draw to conclude that he is on a self-induced slumber.
If the foregone is the case and we do not have any doubt that it is, the future existence of the OSP should be a matter of public discourse. Diverting the OSP budget to making things good for teachers would not be a bad idea.
The President, it would be recalled, expressed confidence in the OSP when in the face of public outcry about its relevance reposed trust in it. The role of Kissi Agyebeng in clearing him of wrongdoing in the matter of the Intermediaries and Government Officials in the airbus saga come to mind.
Politics and governance under a reset system have a special flavour.