{"id":443646,"date":"2017-12-04T22:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/04\/special-prosecutor-will-deal-with-you-osafo-maafo-to-corrupt-officials\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T22:39:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:39:21","slug":"special-prosecutor-will-deal-with-you-osafo-maafo-to-corrupt-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/04\/special-prosecutor-will-deal-with-you-osafo-maafo-to-corrupt-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Prosecutor will deal with you &#8211; Osafo Maafo to corrupt officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/42937014.295.jpg\" alt=\"Osarfo Marfo Focus\" title=\"Osarfo Marfo Focus\" width=\"295\" height=\"185\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Senior Minister Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512427161_396_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Senior Minister Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo has revealed that the office of newly set up Special Prosecutor will soon commence investigating corrupt government officials.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the reason why the government is yet to commence prosecuting corrupt NDC officials is as a result of their resolve to follow due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a forum to launch this year\u2019s national anti-corruption and transparency week in Accra, Osafo-Marfo disclosed that government\u2019s investigations into various acts of corruption perpetrated against the state are far advanced and that names of some corrupt officials and institutions have been catalogued and will soon be made public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a message from the president\u2026which is we are certainly going to make people who have wronged this country through corruption suffer for their deeds. But we don\u2019t want to do this in a hurry,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the laws of this land and we must use the laws of the land not to\u2026punish anybody because of him or her being an opponent but because they have wronged the system. They have been corrupt in the system. So investigations are still going on and very soon\u2026the results will be out for every Ghanaian to hear and to see,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The office of the special prosecutor was a major anti corruption tool for President Akufo Addo ahead of the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Per the law an independent prosecutor will head the office and prosecute corruption offenses by state officers.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Minister Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo The Senior Minister Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo has revealed that the office of newly set up Special Prosecutor will soon commence investigating corrupt government officials. 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