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Fraud Exposed: NDC Campaigning on Anti-Corruption Now Killing OSP - Minority

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has launched a scathing attack on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, accusing it of becoming the “greatest protector of corruption” despite campaigning on a platform of fighting the menace.

Date Created : 4/21/2026 : Story Author : Dominic Shirimori/Ghanadistricts.com

Addressing the media on recent developments concerning the prosecutorial powers of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) following a High Court ruling, the Minority alleged that the ruling government is behind every move to undermine the anti-corruption body.

“A Fraud Exposed”

Speaking to journalists, Alhassan Tampuli, Member of Parliament for Gushegu, said the Minority would be failing in its duty if it did not speak out “plainly and with the force of moral outrage” about what he described as the true character of the NDC government.

“For eight years in opposition, the NDC and its surrogates made corruption the centrepiece of their political attack on the NPP,” Tampuli

stated. “They shouted about corruption from every platform, every radio station, every social media account available to them.”

He recalled that the NDC presented President John Mahama’s return to power as the beginning of a new era of accountability, transparency, and institutional respect. “They promised Ghanaians a government that would fight corruption with uncompromising resolve. Ghanaians believed them,” he added.

Questions for President Mahama

The Minority noted that the NDC’s actions to weaken the OSP have come while some of the party’s own allies and associates are – or were – subjects of OSP investigations. They also pointed to President Mahama’s own public praise of the OSP in December 2025, when he reportedly called it the only institution with prosecutorial independence from the Attorney-General.

“We are compelled to ask: when President Mahama said it was premature to abolish the OSP, did he mean it?” Tampuli questioned. “Or was that intervention designed merely to manage public relations while the real strategy – the constitutional litigation, the AG’s Supreme Court filings, the co-ordinated quo warranto – was allowed to proceed quietly in the background?”

The Minority has called on President Mahama to answer that question directly to the Ghanaian people.

“Neck-Deep in Corruption”

Tampuli concluded with a sharp rebuke: “The NDC barked about corruption when they were in opposition. They are now neck-deep in it in government. And they are working overtime to kill the very institution that Parliament mandated to fight it.”

The Minority Caucus did not provide specific evidence for its allegations but reiterated its demand for transparency regarding the government’s actions toward the Office of the Special Prosecutor.