Former Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has been re-declared Ken Ofori-Atta a wanted fugitive

A supposed letter from the Mayo Clinic, one of the top health facilities in the United States, sighted by GhanaWeb, has confirmed that former Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has cancer.

The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, at the press conference on Monday, June 2, 2025, where he re-declared Ken Ofori-Atta a wanted fugitive, said that his office had been informed by the former minister’s lawyers that he has cancer.

Ghana’s Special Prosecutor, however, indicated that he has not received any medical report confirming that Ofori-Atta really has cancer.

Following the press conference, the letter from the hospital Ken Ofori-Atta is receiving treatment from, the Mayo Clinic, has gone viral, showing what appears to be an official stamp on it.

The letter, which was issued by Ahmed Abdalrhim, a doctor at the Section of International Medicine of Rochester, confirmed that Ofori-Atta had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

The letter also indicated that the former finance minister had gone under the knife on June 13, 2025, and needs to recover fully before he can travel back to Ghana.

“I am writing to inform you that Mr Ofori-Atta has undergone an MR-guided biopsy and has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. A surgical intervention has been deemed necessary, after the testing and MRI and biopsy procedures in March 2025, as I indicated in my February letter. This surgical procedure has been scheduled for June 13, with Dr Paras Shah of the Department of Urology... It is hoped that a closer date may open up.

“Following the procedure, Mr Ofori-Atta will require a recovery period before he is able to travel to his home country,” parts of the letter read.

Read the contents of the full letter below:

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