The immediate past Special Prosecutor (SP), Martin Amidu, has refuted claims that Mr. Kissi Agyebeng “inherited” some nine employees from him when the latter assumed office on the 9th of August this year.
Mr. Amidu, while attributing the supposed shortage of staff to the workings of the Deputy Acting Special Prosecutor, to whose care the office was entrusted at the time when the SP position became vacant, said in his rejoinder that his handing over note detailed that the office had more staff than it is being suggested.
“My handing over note to the Acting Special Prosecutor who took over from me shows that I left behind more police investigators and other staff for the office. Any attrition in numbers occurred during the tenure of the Acting Special Prosecutor who is now Mr. Agyebeng’s deputy and available to explain to Mr. Agyebeng what happened between 16th November 2020 and 9th August 2021 when he reported for duty,” Mr. Amidu’s statement partly read.
“I do not know when the Acting Special prosecutor formally handed over the administration of the office to him. whatever handing over notes the substantive Special Prosecutor might have received on his formal assumption of office, my handing over notes to the Acting Special Prosecutor are official records of the office and should have been made avilable to the Special Prosecutor”, the statement added.
The statement was in reaction to a publication by Ghanaweb in which story it was propagated that Mr. Kissi Agyebeng “inherited” the nine workers from the Mr. Amidu.
The publication reads: “Kissi Agyebeng, the second occupant of the Office of the Special Prosecutor has disclosed he inherited a total of nine employees from his predecessor, Martin Amidu when he took office on August 5, 2021.
“According to him [Kissi Agyebeng], the staff inherited included drivers, cleaners, a prosecutor on secondment from the Attorney General’s office and an investigator on secondment from the Ghana Police Service.”
According to Mr. Amidu, he is “concerned that words might have been put into the mouth of Mr. Agyebeng as the Special Prosecutor” as he [Mr. Agyebeng] is reported to have said.
The embattled former SP further stated that all the concerns raised by Mr. Agyebeng have been addressed in his handing over notes, adding it “may be of some use to him if he has not seen or read them already.
