The Citizens’ Coalition has admonished the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to deal promptly with the legacy cases from Martin Amidu’s tenure with a Board now in place.
It welcomed the long overdue inauguration of the Office of the OSP Board as the vanguard of the fight against corruption, particularly corruption involving politically exposed persons.
It asked the government to provide adequate resources to the OSP to ensure its operational and functional independence, adding that “anything short of that will betray the government’s commitment, dedication and determination to establishing a functional OSP.
“We also entreat the OSP to deal promptly with a number of legacy cases from the Martin Amidu tenure so we can build and sustain confidence in the office and its work,” the Coalition said.
On the recent rising issues of the Achimota forest, it called on the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources to abort all plans for its redevelopment and the leadership of the Lands Commission to act conscientiously in the discharge of their duties to safeguard the national interests as far as the issues and all public lands were concerned,” it noted.
On the Agyapa Royalties Minerals transaction, the Coalition appealed to the government to suspend all steps at implementing it for a more thorough public scrutiny of agreements and lamented over the undue delay in passing the Affirmative Action Bill.
It urged the president and his Cabinet to act with dispatch on the Bill and have Parliament consider and pass it as soon as possible in order to promote inclusion, firmness, fairness and justice for all in society, particularly women and girls.
The Coalition indicated that it had also closely followed the issues related to the government’s accounting for COVID-19 expenditure, saying “it is imperative that the expenditures made for which the citizenry continues to pay levies and taxes are properly accounted for”.
