The government of John Dramani Mahama has reportedly set aside over GH¢146 million for the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).

This information comes from a report by Accra-based GHOne TV. In a post on X on Tuesday, March 12, 2025, the media outlet stated that Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson announced the allocation.

A flyer attached to the post had a picture of the finance minister with the inscription, “Government allocates ₵146.75 million to Office of the Special Prosecutor.”

This announcement comes following suggestions of the OSP being scrapped by the Mahama government.

The National Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has called for the scrapping of the OSP, stating that nothing would come out of it.

According to him, the OSP has not been able to successfully prosecute a single person despite the numerous corruption scandals the country has seen since its creation.

Asiedu Nketiah, in an interview on Okay FM, suggested that the OSP should be scrapped and its resources used to separate the Office of the Attorney General and the Ministry of Justice because an independent Attorney General is key to fighting corruption and not a Special Prosecutor.

“If the Constitution is not amended for new laws, the Special Prosecutor will remain ineffective in prosecuting people. All of the expenditure on the OSP has no benefit. We should cancel it and focus on splitting the Attorney General's Office from the Ministry of Justice,” he said in the Twi dialect.