Dean of the UPSA Law School, Prof Ernest Kofi Abotsi, says the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has done no wrong in opening up to the public about its challenges.
According to him, the Office has acted responsibly in ensuring transparency through updates to the public regarding the prosecutions and investigations underway.
"What the OSP is doing is to give public feedback on specific developments on cases involving matters before him. So I do not have any difficulty at all with the fact that he's giving periodic updates of happenings in court," he explained on Saturday, November 2.
Professor Abotsi made these comments during a discussion on JoyNews' Newsfile.
This comes on the back of Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng’s lamentation on November 29 about what he sees as interferences by the judiciary in investigations into some corruption-related offenses.
According to Kissi Agyebeng, the court is exhibiting some disregard for his office's powers with what he sees as hasty dismissiveness of its cases.
But the UPSA Law School Dean believes the OSP's critique is in the right direction.
For him, it is one of the ways that the public can be aware and meet the Office halfway in terms of bottlenecks impeding his work.
"I did not see and understand what the reason is, that after having been established the OSP should operate in private. And you will have to bear in mind that the OSP is interested in the public facilitation of his work. And so if an officer is interested in the public facilitation of his work, that office invariably would have to engage the public."
"It is when the OSP speaks to the public that the public can be aware of the extent to which the OSP's work is progressing, what the difficulties and challenges are, and if the public thinks that there are any circumstances of complement the OSP's work, the public may so to speak, come out and engage so I think the OSB is doing exactly what they're supposed to do."
Prof Abotsi, therefore, threw his weight behind the OSP's move and urged all to support him defend the public interest as his office is a novel one.
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