Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng has stated that former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is not a special human being for him to give any special treatment to.
Responding to questions from journalists after redeclaring him a wanted individual and a fugitive from justice, he denied claims that his office was targeting the former minister.
He revealed that President John Dramani Mahama was investigated by his office while he (Mahama) was in opposition; hence, the former minister cannot be given any special treatment when a former leader who held the highest office in the land submitted himself for an investigation.
The OSP at the press briefing revealed that he has officially triggered a process for the issuance of an INTERPOL red notice.
This means that the former minister has been subjected to international arrest and extradition.
In addition, the embattled former minister has also been reinstated on the OSP’s list of wanted persons and officially declared a fugitive from justice.
“What is so special about Ofori-Atta that he thinks that he can lie on his bed somewhere and say on his say-so that without any evidence that ‘I am unwrell’ conclusion, he won’t come voluntarily, and so we end this process of accommodating him and put him back on the wanted list?”
Is it the first time that someone in our country has been declared wanted? Is it? All the persons declared before him, were they human or were they not human? He is the only human? There is nothing special about this. That is all I am pointing at. There is nothing secretive or esoteric about it. It is just a simple legal process. Law enforcement agency wants you; you show up… There is no choice about responding to criminal law enforcement… For as far as we are concerned, Mr Ofori-Atta is not special. I will repeat, we investigated a former president… He was served with the same process; he showed up much less than a former finance minister.”
He also declared that the OSP wants Mr Ofori-Atta to appear physically rejecting his proposal for an electronic meeting.
“This office has always requested his attendance, and we have indicated clearly to him that we are unwilling to waive it. If we were amenable to taking any statement from Ken Ofori-Atta in absentia, we would have done so in February and not waited till June 2, 2025.
“We want him here physically, and we insist on it. A suspect in a criminal investigation does not pick and choose how the investigative body conducts its investigations and the methods suitable to him and his convenience. We will not countenance this conduct, not in this case.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana