To that end, Kpebu says that the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) can go ahead to court with the charge and cautionary statements.

If required, he added, the OSP can travel to the United States in an attempt to take the statements from Mr Ofori-Atta.

“The OSP can head to court with charge and caution statements,” Kpebu said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday June 21.

He added, “OSP can go to the US and take the witness statement. If Ofori-Atta says he won’t speak, it does not stop the OSP from going to court.”

Further arguing his point for the OSP to go to court, Kpebu stated that “even if Ofori-Atta is in the United States, there is no guarantee that he will return to Ghana.”

For his part, Professor Ransford Gyampo asked whether the Office of the Special Prosecutor has visited the Mayo Clinic in the United States, where former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says he is receiving treatment.

“Has the OSP gone to where Mr Ofori-Atta is and he is not there?” Prof Gyampo asked after his colleague, discussant Dr Joshua Zaato said that the National Security can intervene and find out whether or not Ofori-Atta is receiving treatment at the Mayo Clinic.

Dr Zaato says currently, what Ghanaians are experiencing is just a banter of words of Ofori-Atta against those of the Office of the Special Prosecutor.

Dr Zaato  said that “National security can go to Mayo Clinic to find out if he is there.”

“Can the intelligence security of the state track where Ofori Atta is? If you don’t know where he is, the passport can be tracked,” he added.

“OSP should track Ofori-Atta with the location provided, Dr Zaato stressed.

His comments come at a time when the wife of Ken Ofori-Atta refuted claims by the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng that the former Finance Minister has decided not to present himself to his outfit to account for his tenure in office.

According to Mrs Angela Ofori-Atta, her husband is not running away from Accountability.

“The Ken that we all know does not run away from accountability. We know that he has been to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to talk about his work. This is not a Ken who runs away from accountability. I ask the public to remember that he hasn’t shied away from facing up to issues,” she said on June 16.

Her comment was in reaction to Mr Agyebeng’s assertion during a press conference on June 2 when he declared Mr Ofori-Atta wanted again, for failing to honour a promise to appear his outfit earlier on that day.

“It is three hours past the agreed time for Ken Ofori-Atta to attend upon the Office of the Special Prosecutor. He has failed to do so. In view of this, as stated before. I have directed that he should be placed on the wanted list again,” he declared.

He explained that “Illness is not a shield from accountability—unless certified as incapacitating.”

In reaction, Mrs Ofori-Atta said, “It’s amazing that we have to deal with cancer in the last year. This is the only process by which we hopefully ensure that it doesn’t spread.”

She noted that the decision to get Mr Ofori-Atta to recover fully before presenting himself for interrogation, is one that has been taken by the family.

“If I have to make the choice, I will make it again, I don’t know a wife or family who will send a loved one to respond to a Special Prosecutor when they are battling cancer. So, I’m sorry, but this is what we have to face, we have to get him well,” she explained on Joy FM on June 16.

Mr Ofori-Atta’s wife wondered why the Special Prosecutor has declined to interrogate her husband through video conferencing.

“Even through these stressful times, he has always said, let me respond to you by video, it is allowed, so that I’m not the cause of you delaying your investigations. He has also said whatever questions you have, you can ask my lawyers, and we will respond. Whatever information you want, we can give you. So, I don’t understand what is going on,” she stated.

The OSP is investigating Mr. Ofori-Atta in connection with five high-stakes cases linked to his tenure under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. These include: