The Member of Parliament for Asante Akim North Kwame Andy Appiah-Kubi has said officials of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) who came to Parliament to interrogate him in the investigation of the bribery allegation adopted an intimidatory approach.
Speaking on the Key Points on TV3 on Saturday, January 6, he said: “His approach failed him.”
“The OSP officials started fighting me so I decided to remain silent, they had already come to me with a hostile attitude even in the precincts of Parliament, and they asked the other MPs who came to leave.
“The OSP officials did not understand the ethics of the profession that you need to show courtesy to everyone who comes before you,” he added.
“This intimidatory approach and the disrespect to the other MPs who were asked to leave was not helpful,” he stressed.
The Special Prosecutor (SP) directed the closure of investigations into allegations that were made by Appiah-Kubi. The lawmaker had alleged that 80 Members of Parliament of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) received bribe from an unnamed businessman to back down on their demand for the resignation of Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta.
According to Mr Kissi Agyebeng, proceeding with investigations will not yield the desired results.
“…the Special Prosecutor directs the closure of the investigation
in respect of allegations that a well-known and wealthy businessman attempted
to bribe a section of the majority caucus of Parliament. The Special Prosecutor
determines that the institution of criminal proceedings, at this time, against the
OSP’s identified suspect would serve no useful purpose,” a report dated December 28 sighted by 3News.com indicated.
The SP stated that, “The investigation may be re-opened should the circumstances and further facts so dictate.”
“This report is founded on regulation 31(1)(g) of the Office of the Special
Prosecutor (Operations) Regulations, 2018 (L.I. 2374), which mandates the OSP
to publish detected acts of corruption through the receipt, collection, or collation
of reports, documents, materials, complaints, allegations, information and
intelligence,” he wrote.
It would be recalled that the MP for Asante Akim North, Andy Appiah-Kubi alleged that a wealthy businessman attempted to bribe he and 79 of his colleague NPP MPs for them to stop their quest to have Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta removed from office.