OSP denies bias, says NPP and NDC vote-buying probes guided by law

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has dismissed claims that it is selectively targeting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in its investigations into alleged vote buying.

The office clarified that probes into both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries and the recent NDC Ayawaso East parliamentary primaries are guided solely by law and evidence.

Some critics suggested bias after a statement from the OSP appeared to focus more on the NDC case.

The office explained that the statement was structured sequentially, covering the NPP in one paragraph and the NDC in the next, and was not intended to single out any political party.

Reports from the Ayawaso East primary indicate that delegates received 32-inch TVs, coolers, and boiled eggs from the camp of Mohammed Baba Jamal Ahmed.

Allegations also surfaced from the NPP presidential primaries of cash being distributed to delegates, which reportedly caused dissatisfaction among those who did not receive payments.

According to the OSP, special attention was given to one NDC candidate because of an alleged assault on an OSP officer during the electoral process.

The Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications at the OSP, Sammy Darko, stressed that the investigations are impartial and conducted without political bias.

He clarified that the sequential presentation of cases in the statement was misread by some, noting, “It is purely that we stated in paragraph one as NPP and paragraph two as NDC. In paragraph three, we talked about what we are investigating in those instances,” he said in an interview with Citi FM on Monday, February 9.

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