Many things are happening in Ghana today and negatively. Sometimes we wonder whether the country is not in the grips of a spell, the one which befalls a people when some of them engage a powerful oracle to assist them to achieve power.
From missing containers to persons flexing their muscles beyond their limits the occurrences are coming in droves. Those in the news-gathering and dissemination industry are simply overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of omissions and commissions by persons bestowed with authority.
Riveting our attention today on the Office of the Special Prosecutor otherwise referred to as OSP is just appropriate given the consistent misconduct of the Special Prosecutor or the SP.
The OSP is a jinxed entity whose establishment by former President Akufo-Addo in his bid to fight corruption we bet he has regretted in hindsight. The office has not achieved any feat regarding its mandate. The only success the Office has achieved with Kisi Agyebeng leading the charge is the ignominious ridding of Government Official One of corruption in the Airbus scandal.
We recall how by the time he gleefully exhausted the contents of his press conference exonerating President John Mahama he was reduced to a legal laughing stock.
Today in his state of uselessness to the state and in the face of a huge budget the SP who reminds us of a typical bullish School Prefect in a typical grammar school of yore has turned his attention to the media.
The SP has been afflicted with a contagion of megalomania which is driving him to cross the red line of his mandate.
A lawyer of his standing on the roll of the learned in the country should be the last person to want to flex his muscles beyond his constitutional limits and it hurts to draw this conclusion.
Instead of discoursing corruption which is what the SP is engaged to fight we are rather compulsorily discussing the misconduct of the man at the throttles of the OSP and sadly so.
Another entry was made in the unattractive testimonial of the SP last Wednesday when he pounced on a journalist, Gordon Asare-Bediako over a flimsy charge of publication of false news.
The journalist according to him had claimed during a radio programme that he Kisi Adjabeng had requested for a private jet and that this allegation constituted an act of corruption. Wow has the lawyer forgotten that the obnoxious libel law has been expunged from our statute books.
Has he forgotten also that he is entitled to a rejoinder or a recourse to the National Media Commission or the courts as a last resort if he feels trampled upon by a journalist?
Kisi Agyebeng should be reminded not to traverse his prosecutorial role and assume roles that are outside his purview.
This country is ruled by law and so this and his bizarre declaration of persons as wanted and fugitives only expose his underbelly for public ridicule and further make the OSP unwanted. Such a drain on our limited fiscal resources and the SP still irks us with irritating silly actions.
