Dr. Frank Amoakohene, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress, has urged the Office of the Special Prosecutor to concentrate its efforts on pressing national corruption issues rather than exploiting internal party disputes as a diversion.
This follows the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s invitation of a defeated candidate for the NDC’s Parliamentary and Presidential primaries who was caught on camera throwing cash during the just-concluded Presidential and Parliamentary primaries.
The NDC regional executives electronically met with Juliana Kinang-Wassan, the unsuccessful candidate.
The party’s leadership was interested in learning the motivation behind the former candidate’s actions on that particular day.
Dr. Amoakohene insisted, in an interview with Citi News following the meeting, that the Special Prosecutor’s office should stop interfering in internal party disputes and instead focus on matters of great national importance, such as the Galamsey Report by the former Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Frimpong-Boateng, and the most recent Gold Mafia documentary by media outlet, Al Jazeera Network.
He said, “After having a meeting with Juliana Kinang-Wassan, we noticed that the Special Prosecutor just wants to be relevant. I want to put it on record that the Special Prosecutor wants to prioritise this minor issue for corruption that is going on such as Professor Frimpong-Boateng’s report, the Al jazeera’s gold mafia report, and you want to prioritise this against that?
“Is like the Special Prosecutor doesn’t know what he’s about. He saw that something was trending and decided to jump onto it. What happened in the space of the elections was nothing to worry about. That was not the promise for the elections. The manner in which the money was sprayed doesn’t speak well, but if you take your time and listen to the event that preceded what occurred, you will understand that the candidate cannot be faulted”.
He further called on the OSP to use the taxpayers’ money to investigate cases begging prosecution than concentrate on NDC’s trivial matter.
“The OSP should use the taxpayers’ money to investigate high-profile corruption cases,” Dr Amoakohene said on Eyewitness News.
