By Nathaniel Nartey
Executive Director of Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson says ranking of public institutions on corruption perception is not the mandate of the Special Prosecutor and advised the OSP to refrain from any plans to do so.
According to him, such rankings should be done by Civil Society Organizations.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor should also be ranked on corruption perception.
Mr. Thompson was reacting to the Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyabeng’s media briefing yesterday where he made public his intentions to rank Public Institutions based on their corruption perception.
Speaking to GBC News, Mr. Thompson advised the Special Prosecutor to focus on fighting corruption and stay away from other activities that will impede his work.
”I think the OSP is veering away from its core mandate and concerning itself with auxiliaries. If the OSP wants to rank people or organizations, I don’t think that is what the Office was set up to do. These auxiliary activities should be left for CSOs to undertake because the OSP itself is an institution that needs ranking”.
Mr. Thompson said it is unclear if ASEPA’s petition on the contract awarded to Frontiers to undertake Covid-19 testing at the Kotoka International Airport is included in the 31 cases earmarked by the OSP for prosecution next year.
”As we speak, we have petitioned the Special Prosecutor to investigate the Frontiers Covid-19 testing contract at the Airport. He (Kissi Agyebeng) only wrote to acknowledge our letter after a couple of weeks and till date, nothing has been heard of it. We don’t know if our petition is part of the 31 cases the OSP intends to investigate because he did not give out the details, according to Mensah Thompson.
