Private Legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu has criticised the conduct of former finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta in failing to appear before the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) on an agreed date of June 2, 2025.
The OSP has redeclared Ken Ofori-Atta a wanted person and issued an INTERPOL Red notice against him after the Special Prosecutor concluded that Ofori-Atta is only using a medical treatment as an excuse to evade inquiry into alleged corruption-related offenses.
Speaking on TV3 New Day’s The Big Issue, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, Martin Kpebu said Ofori-Atta’s conduct is just “to deceive the OSP.”
According to him, the former finance minister’s conduct is “fraudulent” and commended the OSP for declaring Ofori-Atta a wanted man.
“Ofori-Atta has not shown good faith at all. The way he has behaved in this manner just as he conducted himself as finance minister that he never shown good faith.
“You see how he has stood the OSP up…It’s been a fraudulent conduct to be honest with you because you know you were going to do a surgery that is why you were given June 2, 2025 but by March 21st you knew that the surgery was not coming on. You wait till May 28 five or six days to the June 2 then you write to the OSP for an adjournment.
“It is good that OSP has declared him wanted so that he will eventually be caught somewhere and brought back home,” Martin Kpebu said.
On February 18, 2025, lawyers of Ken Ofori-Atta wrote to the OSP requesting that the former finance minister will undergo a medical treatment and would return to the jurisdiction between May 4 – May 30, 2025, hence, he would only be available for interview on June 2, 2025.
The OSP subsequently agreed to the scheduled date on June 2, 2025.
However, through his lawyers, in a letter dated May 28, 2025, Mr. Ofori-Atta informed the OSP that a medical expert has diagnosed Mr. Ofori-Atta with cancer and will be unable to meet the June 2, 2025 deadline.
He further requested through his lawyers to undergo a video recorded interview for the purpose of eliciting his caution statement.
But the OSP in responding to the request in a letter dated May 30, 2025 denied the request for a video recorded interview and insisted on Ofori-Atta’s physical appearance.
He explained that “Illness is not a shield from accountability—unless certified as incapacitating.”
The Special Prosecutor further noted that the Office will commence prosecution of Mr Ofori-Atta, “even if in absentia.”
The OSP is investigating Mr. Ofori-Atta in connection with five high-stakes cases linked to his tenure under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. These include:
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- Petroleum and Minerals Revenue Assurance:
Contractual arrangements between Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). - Electricity Company Contract Termination:
The termination of a contract between the Electricity Company of Ghana and Beijing Xiao Cheng Technology (BXC). - National Cathedral Project:
Procurement procedures and financial transactions related to the National Cathedral. - Ambulance Procurement:
A Ministry of Health contract with Service Ghana Auto Group Limited for purchasing and maintaining 307 ambulances. - GRA Tax P-Fund Management:
Handling and disbursement of funds from the Tax P-Fund Account of the GRA.
- Petroleum and Minerals Revenue Assurance:
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