A photo collage of Kissi Agyebeng (R) and former CEO of Scholarship Secretariat, Kingsley Agyemang

A former Deputy Staff Officer of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), DSO Mark Kwaku Asiedu-Arthur, has sued the OSP and the Attorney General at the Human Rights Division of the High Court in Accra, claiming that his dismissal was unconstitutional and violated his fundamental human rights.

According to court documents filed by his lawyer, Derrick Aboagye Asamoah, the applicant was employed by the OSP in July 2023 and served diligently until his appointment was abruptly withdrawn in June 2025.

Asiedu-Arthur contends that the decision to revoke his appointment was not only procedurally unfair but also motivated by victimisation.

He insists that the real reason for his removal was linked to his involvement in politically sensitive investigations, particularly one involving the Scholarship Secretariat.

He alleges that the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, had a personal interest in the Scholarship Secretariat case and sought to punish him for pursuing it.

In his motion, Asiedu-Arthur argued that the OSP’s withdrawal of his appointment letter dated July 31, 2023, was done “without a hearing, and based on previously disclosed information,” describing the act as “unfair, unreasonable, and in breach of Article 23 of the Constitution, 1992.”

He claimed the OSP’s actions were tainted with illegality, procedural unfairness, and bad faith.

The applicant is seeking a declaration from the court to nullify the termination and is demanding compensation for what he describes as the infringement of his fundamental human rights.

He is also asking the court for “an order for reinstatement or, in the alternative, payment of compensation in a lump sum, recovery of legal costs in line with the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) scale of fees, and any other remedies the Honourable Court may deem fit.”

In his affidavit, Asiedu-Arthur stated that his prior termination from the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) had been fully disclosed during the OSP recruitment process and was accepted by the panel.

He emphasised that he served the office for nearly a year without any disciplinary issues or misconduct.

He explained that during his tenure at the Investigations Division of the OSP, he led inquiries into alleged corruption at the Scholarship Secretariat. His team, he said, arrested suspects, collected statements, and gathered substantial evidence.

At the height of the investigation, they were preparing to arrest Kingsley Agyemang, then CEO of the Scholarship Secretariat and now the Member of Parliament for Akim Abuakwa South.

In the affidavit, Asiedu-Arthur claimed, “That at a point in the investigation, my team was preparing to arrest Mr. Kingsley Agyemang, the Chief Executive Officer of the Scholarship Secretariat, who is now the Member of Parliament for Akim Abuakwa South and a very close friend of the Special Prosecutor (Mr. Kissi Agyebeng, Esq).

“That owing to the imminence of the 2024 general elections and the fact that Mr. Kingsley Agyemang, of the Scholarship Secretariat, was a parliamentary candidate for the Abuakwa South Constituency, the Special Prosecutor, in or around October 2024, directed that the investigation involving the Scholarship Secretariat be discontinued so as not to prejudice his political ambitions.”

Asiedu-Arthur contends that the sudden discontinuation of the investigation, followed by the termination of his appointment, amounts to victimisation and a breach of his rights under Articles 23 and 191 of the 1992 Constitution, which guarantee administrative justice and protect public servants from arbitrary dismissal.

Both the Attorney General and the Office of the Special Prosecutor have been named as respondents in the suit.

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