Special Prosecutor moves to challenge High Court order handing cases to Attorney General

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has announced it will take immediate legal steps to challenge and overturn a High Court ruling in Accra that ordered the Attorney General’s Department to assume control of all criminal prosecutions currently being handled by the OSP. In a statement issued Tuesday, the OSP described the ruling as “a fundamental threat to the independence of the Office” and said it had instructed its legal team to file an appeal and an application for a stay of execution at th…