The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has says although he respects the credentials of former Chairman of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, he is only doing his job.
The comments follow several criticisms that have been thrown at him following the arrest of the heart surgeon and his subsequent bail.
The OSP in May arrested Professor Frimpong-Boateng to answer questions about suspected corruption and corruption-related offences in respect of the activities and expenditure of the dissolved IMCIM.
The Special Prosecutor in an interview on Newsfile on Joy FM “I respect the credentials of the Professor, and I doff my hat to him. You know me very personally, I am an academician as well, and so I respect such people on all scores. I mean the CV is unbelievable, I respect that, and I applaud him for that, but I have a charge to keep. The charge I have to keep is to the Republic of Ghana and to the public. I have been put in this office to investigate corruption and corruption-related offences, to recover assets for the country”.
According to him, he will treat no one as a saint when fighting corruption and society must allow him to do his job.
He said if treats people as saints when.dealing with issues of corruption, he will lose that fight.
“Any member of the public has the luxury to consecrate saints, but in consecrating your saint and heroes, mind you, I am your conscience. I’m the spirit of the nation and the office stands for that. In the estimation of the office, there are no saints, there are no heroes. Now if I approach this job of fighting corruption, that there are some persons in society who have attained the status of sainthood, we will lose the fight against corruption. You have your saint, I don’t have a saint. In your estimation, the man is a saint, but from my angle, I treat no one as a saint,” the Special Prosecutor stressed.
“It’s very far-reaching, it has engulfed as a nation. And so we are leaving no stone unturned. Our gloves are off, and we are coming for everyone who we think should be dragged before us. Several persons have appeared before us already and many more persons are going to appear before us. We are fighting this, and we will see it to the end,” he warned.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
