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Panelists sat to digest pertinent subjects across various sections; politics and governance in the country, bringing to fore the details and possibly feasible suggestions.
Among topics for discussion was the possibility of finding the three girls kidnapped in Takoradi last year.
It’s been almost a year since the kidnapping and the police is yet to find victims. In April,
Read full articlethe CID boss Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah told Ghanaians the police know where the girls are but after a month without any update she has come under attack from both families of the victims and the general public with some calling for her resignation. She now says she was misunderstood by Ghanaians and that the police only wanted to give the family hope.
The questions on the minds of many now are that, are the girls still alive and is there any hope of them ever being found.
Also up for discussion was the performance of the Office of the Special Prosecutor, a year after its formation. Many have expressed disappointment in Martin Amidu for failing to prosecute any case of corruption within his first year in office.
Expressing his disappointment is the Office of the Special Prosecutor, Vice-President of policy think tank Imani Africa, Kofi Bentil Ghanaians are being given a “host of excuses and it’s not acceptable that they’ve not performed as we all expected. They generally have disappointed most people and there’s a lot of excuses on why they’ve performed poorly…”
But Chairman of Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Ben Abdallah Banda, has described as unfair, suggestions that the Office of the Special Prosecutor has failed to live up to expectation a year after its establishment.
He argues that the mandate of the office and its operations require more time to be fruitful.
Meanwhile, a list of 26 cases receiving attention at the Office of the Special Prosecutor was made public over the week.
The list includes opposition figures as high profile as former President John Mahama and government appointees under the Akufo-Addo administration such as Board Chair of the Ghana National Petroleum Company and national chairman of the governing NPP Freddie Blay.
The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has so far filed one case in court among the 25 cases which have piqued his interest.
