In view of the elaborate provisions in the 1992 Constitution and other laws made to protect the extractive mineral resources of the nation for and on behalf of the Chiefs and people of Ghana, this Office as a specialized independent, preventive, investigative, prosecutorial and assets recovering anti-corruption agency established by this Government decided under the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) to undertake an analysis of the risk of corruption, and anti-corruption assessment of the processes originating what became known as the Transaction Documents and leading up to the partisan approval by Parliament of the Transaction Documents.
It is the expectation of this Office that the results of its independent analysis of the risk of corruption and anti-corruption assessment of the Transaction Documents as approved will unite the nation and avoid the resource curse of conflicts experienced in other African countries.
The Special Prosecutor accordingly decided on 10th September 2020 to invoke the mandate of this Office pursuant to Sections 2(c), 4, 29, 69, and 73 of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) and Regulation 31 of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (Operations) Regulations, (L. I. 2374) enjoining the Office to execute the object of prevention of corruption in addition to investigating and prosecuting corruption and corruption-related offences.
This Office has the mandate to undertake measures to prevent corruption which includes analysis of the risk of corruption, anti-corruption assessment of legislation and draft legislation, publicizing detected acts of corruption, identifying deficiencies in administration of instructions, regulations and procedure, and individual interest, including greed, lack of ethicaliness and legal awareness, amongst others.
This Office, therefore, decided to make a request to Parliament to be provided with information and documents related to or in connection with the approval by Parliament of the Agyapa Royalties Transactions on 14th August 2020 to assist this Office execute its prevention of corruption mandate.
Read details of the report below:
Osp Agyapa Analysis Assessment Report Oct 15 2020 by Fuaad Dodoo on Scribd
