The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has issued recent developments regarding an accusation that three government officials were harboring up to US$100 million within their residences.

This claim, initially presented in September 2023 by Listowel Nana Kusi-Poku, the Executive Director of the Good Governance Advocacy Group Ghana (GGAGG), prompted a challenge to the OSP to investigate.

In an interview on Accra FM on September 4, 2023, Kusi-Poku urged the OSP to commence an inquiry into his allegations, asserting that he could guide the office to the location of the $100 million held by these politicians.

Furthermore, he declared that failure to assist the OSP in locating the funds should result in a life imprisonment sentence for himself.

However, the OSP has confirmed that Kusi-Poku did not provide the necessary support to facilitate the follow-up on his allegations. This information surfaced during an exchange on X (formerly Twitter) this week when the OSP was prompted by a tweet to provide updates on the specific issue.

"OSP followed up. But, he is yet to supply the information," the office responded to a video in which Kusi-Poku was making his allegations.

The accusations followed the arrest of former sanitation minister Cecilia Dapaah's housemaids after it was discovered that they had taken more than a million dollars in cash as well as smaller amounts in euros and cedis.

What Kusi-Poku said

“The special prosecutor should come and pick me up so that I would take him to the home of three politicians. We are going to dig the ground in these houses and if we don’t get $100, I should be jailed forever.

“These three people are even at the lower levels of this government. I am throwing this challenge to the special prosecutor because he is the only one who has the authority to, out of suspicion, investigate such matters,” he said in Twi.