The Minority in Parliament says they will challenge the decision by the government to create a special prosecutor’s office.
Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, interacting with the media said, the move will be a breach of Ghana’s constitution.
As part of Nana Addo’s presidential campaign was about uprooting corruption.
Nana Addo said, "We have decided that as much as possible we want to take the politics out of it."
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He has indicated one of his priorities would be to establish the Office of a Special Prosecutor to deal with corruption.
Haruna Iddrisu on his part said, "You cannot create this without tinkling with article 88 of the constitution. And article 88 belongs to the executive chapter of the constitution, and that is entrenched. Therefore you cannot be seeking to review that through an act of parliament; that will be to come through the window to seek to amend a constitutional provision. We will subject that proposition to strict legal test, if it includes examining it and considering a legal pronouncement at the highest level of the Supreme Court."
Meanwhile, the 2016 presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom said the establishment of the Office of a Special Prosecutor as part of measures to deal with corruption is not important.
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According to him, Nana Addo's initial priority to deal with corruption is not necessary to fight corruption in the country.
The Presidential Advisor on Governance and Corruption Daniel Batidam, has also kicked against plans by the incoming Nana Akufo-Addo led government to establish the office of an independent prosecutor to fight corruption.
He said, "it’s not the way to go in setting up a special prosecutor, whoever does any kind of work under the present constitution that we have, it will end on the desk of the attorney general."