ADOM-OTCHERE SUES OSP TO CHALLENGE WEALTH DECLARATION ORDER
The media personality and former Ghana Airports Company Board Chairman files a High Court application seeking to quash the Special Prosecutor's directive, calling it an "abuse of power."
Media personality Paul Adom-Otchere has initiated legal action against the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), challenging a directive that ordered him to declare his property and income as part of an ongoing corruption investigation.
The lawsuit, filed at the High Court (General Jurisdiction Division), represents a significant legal confrontation between one of Ghana’s prominent media figures and the country’s primary anti-corruption body. Adom-Otchere, former Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), is seeking to have the OSP’s August 4, 2025 directive declared unlawful and quashed.
The legal challenge, led by former Attorney-General Godfred Dame, argues that the OSP’s property declaration order violates the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) and constitutes a clear abuse of power. The investigation focuses on the award of a revenue assurance contract by GACL to private entity Evatex Limited, which the OSP is examining as part of its probe into suspected corruption and corruption-related offenses.
Adom-Otchere is seeking four key reliefs from the court, though the specific details of these legal remedies were not immediately available. The case represents a major test of the OSP’s expansive powers and could set important precedents for how the anti-corruption body conducts investigations and exercises its authority to compel property declarations from individuals under scrutiny.
Source;NKONKONSA.com
