The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has said he will work hard to ensure that corruption in Ghana, which he likened to a pandemic, is suppressed and repressed.
“I come into this office and pledge to the people of Ghana as I said exactly two weeks ago, that I am going to work assiduously [and] with deliberation to suppress and repress corruption,” Agyebeng said after he had been sworn in to office by President Akufo-Addo at Jubilee House in Accra on Thursday 5 August.
For his part, President Akufo-Addo, after administering the Oath of Allegiance, the Official Oath and the Oath of Secrecy to the new Special Prosecutor, said that his government will offer the Office of the Special Prosecutor all the assistance it needs to fight corruption in Ghana.
“I want to assure Kissi Agyebeng, like I assured his predecessor, that not only will the executive, including the Attorney General, respect scrupulously the independence of his office, but [we will] also provide him with whatever assistance will be required to enable him to discharge his high duties effectively in the interest of the Ghanaian people,” the president said.
