Kissi Agyebeng is playing games with the taxpayer’s mind to satisfy the OSP’s unlawful entrepreneurial agenda and not to fight corruption and corruption-related offences and the US government can see through the ruse. The OSP under Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng is like an inflated balloon which once it bursts reveals the lies and misinformation it conceals for the world to see.

The Chief Justice is the head of the judicial arm of government and I am surprised that the paragraphs numbered 14 and 15 of her supplementary affidavit contain a childlike ingratiating cry, begging and appeals to the emotions of the Court and the general public without any scintilla of supporting facts. It is a patent insult to the citizens exercising their constitutional rights under 146 to petition for the removal of the Chief Justice from office.

The Judiciary is the least dangerous branch and the citizen’s hope for freedom and justice. Consequently, we must channel our efforts to defending Article 146 of the Constitution and produce cogent evidence when we allege it is being subverted by any person or group of persons. In the absence of any concrete evidence of impropriety on the part of the petitioners, the public has a vested interest in knowing the outcome of the removal process begun by the petitions submitted to the President.

Every citizen is enjoined to abide by the decision of the Supreme Court and it is, therefore, impermissible to seek to influence the removal process of the Chief Justice by publishing unauthenticated content of alleged petitions or for a member of the Council of State or for any other so called eminent persons to mount public platforms at the CRC to tacitly bargain into the hearing of the petitions by the committee appointed to do so.

By parity of reasoning, the President who is the recipient of petitions for the removal of the Chief Justice will be abusing his oath of office to obstruct the right of a citizen petitioner to prosecute his petition against the respondent Chief Justice by accepting her resignation after  the determination of a prima facie case, the appointment of the pursuant committee to inquire into the petition and her suspension from office. What is good for the goose is good for the gander!

The timing of the IEA facilitation process for the constitutional review process and the intervention of the CRC Chairman, Mr. Kwasi Prempeh, who is also the Executive Director of CDD-Ghana who held public office in the Akufo-Addo government when the Council of State has come under partisan criticism within the past two months in the execution of its mandate under Article 146(6) of the Constitution for the removal of Chief Justices gives one the impression that the IEA forum is being used for ideological partisan politics once again.

Analysis shows that the political elite of the new government uses the time between the first transition SONA and a change of government from one of the two political parties to make sure that it is their turn to squander public money, before the electorate switches governments. While the political elite are busy at the trough eating their turn from the public purse, political party cards and political affiliation matter more than citizenship of Ghana.

Mr. President, be even handed and crack the whip to recover all loot from the OSP and earn the nation’s respect this time round in your tenure. Vindicate the electorate’s trust in you and anchor the NDC on solid grounds for 7 December 2028. Mr. President, I will stand by you all the way in any genuine endeavour by you to fight corruption in Ghana. We can only achieve this by, Putting Ghana First!

President Mahama, deal with the payroll “economic crime scene” at the OSP which made a favourable decision for your benefit first and establish your credibility to deal with the irregularities at the NEIP, and the annulment of all appointments made by former President Akufo-Addo after 7 December 2024.

The empty rhetoric of inheriting politico-economic crime scenes has been part of the rhetoric of every new government under the 1992 Constitution since 7 January 2001 to date, and that is precisely the reason for the electorate wagering their luck with President John Dramani Mahama again on 7 December 2024 upon his can-do promises. Please, brother, walk your pre-election can-do talk!