Richard Ahiagbah, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Director of Communications, has urged Attorney-General (AG) Dominic Ayine to look into the disappearance of state monies connected to well-known corruption cases, even though prosecutions were recently closed.
He questioned the impact on justice and accountability and voiced serious concerns about the Attorney General’s decision to drop high-profile corruption cases.
His remarks follow the AG’s dismissal of cases involving former government appointees, including as the Saglemi Housing Scandal, the COCOBOD case, and the SSNIT OBS issue.
He also emphasized that the loss of cash needs to be thoroughly probed and encouraged the Attorney-General to give openness and accountability top priority.
“There’s something democratically regressive about H.E. John Dramani Mahama’s clearing of all these members of the NDC. It rubbishes the judiciary and diminishes the quality of our democracy. I will not be surprised if our democracy drops in the global rankings. This situation is detrimental to the growth prospects of the Fourth Republic,”Richard Ahiagbah disclosed this on X.
Richard Ahiagbah further reiterated that these actions by President Mahama may signal to present and future appointees to be reckless because a means to escape accountability exists in a nolle prosequi; all one has to do is find creatively legal ways to stymie prosecutorial processes long enough for one’s political party to win an election, and all charges or cases will be quashed with a simple uncontestable nolle prosequi…That is the democracy we are encouraging by being quiet.”
“He disclosed that, this is terrible and particularly sad because civil society is quiet, the Ghana Bar Association is quiet, the judiciary is quiet, etc.
“This silence is not only deafening but also dizzying…
“Fellow Ghanaians, the next step in the John Mahama Administration’s “clearing” agenda may be to issue orders to release convicted and imprisoned individuals affiliated with the NDC. Just wait and see.”
“Where is the Democracy Hub? Or is there nothing wrong with the clearings?
He argued that dropping the charges raises serious concerns about governance and accountability.
According to Richard Ahiagbah, the decision to discontinue these cases could have far-reaching economic and political consequences for Ghana.
He further criticized the NDC government’s anti-corruption stance, pointing out that President Mahama ran on a platform of fighting corruption but has failed to hold his own party members accountable.
