Adu-Boahen’s Probe: Special Prosecutor Won't Do a Fair Job – Adomako Baafi
A former Communications Director of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Adomako Baafi has said that he does not trust the Office of the Special Prosecutor to do a good job in the investigation of corruption levelled against Charles Adu Boahen, the sacked Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance.
The Special Prosecutor on Tuesday announced that he had started a probe into allegations of corruption levelled against the former Minister.
This comes after the Secretary to the President, upon the directions of the President, referred to the Office of the Special Prosecutor for further investigations, allegations contained in an investigative exposé published by Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ Tiger Eye P.I. titled “Galamsey Economy”.
Charles Adu Boahen, Minister of State in charge of Finance at the Office of the President, captured in an undercover documentary, revealed to Tiger Eye that the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, needs just USD200,000 token as an appearance fee and some positions by an investor for the Vice President’s siblings to get his backing and influence in establishing a business in Ghana.
This revelation was made in a meeting with Tiger Eye investigators, who in an undercover investigation, posed as businessmen, in a hotel room in the United Arab Emirates. This was an investigation into top-level corruption that undermines investor confidence in Ghana.
But speaking on Okay FM's 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, he stated it was a great mistake on the part of government to refer the matter to the Special Prosecutor who has been a lawyer for Anas Aremeyaw Anas in the past.
"How will you trust the Special Prosecutor to come out with a fair verdict. He has been working for Anas all these while. Charles Adu Boahen has just been sent into the lion's den," he added.
“I have absolutely no trust in the Office of the Special Prosecutor to do a fair job.
"So, you don’t expect anything progressive to come out of that Office’s investigations. Who has the Special Prosecutor’s Office successfully prosecuted? So, as for that office, to be honest, it’s not worth saying so much about it or attaching much seriousness to it,” Adomako Baafi stated.
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