Private legal practitioner Ace Ankomah has ignited a fierce debate on institutional independence, arguing that the recent push in Parliament to abolish the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is merely the latest manifestation of a long-standing hostility among lawmakers toward autonomous state bodies.
Ankomah used this political tussle as the basis for his radical proposal: the dissolution of the OSP, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to form a single, politically insulated National Prosecutions Authority.
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