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Former Ghana Airports Company Board Chairman, Paul Adom-Otchere, has sued the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) over its ongoing investigation against him. According to the OSP, Adom-Otchere, who is also the host of Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana programme, filed an application at the High Court in Accra challenging its directive ordering him to declare his properties and income. The post shared by the OSP on X, on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, indicated that the broadcaster, through his lawyer, Godfred Dame, a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, asked the court to quash the OSP’s directive. “Former Ghana Airports Company Board Chairman, Paul Adom-Otchere, has filed an application at the High Court seeking to quash a directive by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) ordering him to declare his property and income. “His lawyers, led by former Attorney General Godfred Dame, argue that the directive issued on August 4, 2025, is unlawful, violates the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) and its regulations, and constitutes an abuse of power,” part of the post read. The post also had a shot of the application, which captured some of the reliefs Adom-Otchere is seeking from the court. He asked the court to declare that the order by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) amounts to an abuse of power. “A declaration that the directive of the Special Prosecutor for the applicant herein to declare his property and income, contained in the Notice to Declare Property and Income dated 4 August, 2025 and signed by the Special Prosecutor, is manifestly unlawful, in violation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) and Office of the Special Prosecutor (Operations) Regulations, 2018 (LI 2374), and amounts to an abuse of power of the Special Prosecutor; “An order of certiorari to bring in the directive of the Special Prosecutor complained of in (i) above and quash same as being in violation of due process and relevant provisions of Act 950 regulating the performance of the Special Prosecutor’s functions, particularly, sections 47(1), 50 and 51 of Act 959,” part of the document reads. He also asked the court to declare that his detention by the OSP was a violation of his human rights. “A declaration that threats issued by the Special Prosecutor and his staff of ‘legal consequences’, ‘confiscation of property or income and ‘detention’ following the service of the Notice to Declare Property and Income dated 4th August, 2025, are an unlawful harassment of the applicant and in violation of the applicant’s fundamental human rights,” he added. The Office of the Special Prosecutor, in July 2025, detained Paul Adom-Otchere, a former Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited Board, and two others. Adom-Otchere and the two others – Otchere Kwame Baffour Awuah, Group Executive, Commercial Services, GACL; and Albert Adjetey Adjei-Laryea, CEO of Devnest Systems, were detained after honouring an invitation by the OSP. According to a post shared by the OSP on social media, the three were questioned over possible procurement breaches in the revenue assurance contract between GACL and a company owned by the proprietor of Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML). “Mr Adom-Otchere is under investigation in connection with a revenue assurance contract between the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) and a private firm owned by the proprietor of Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Ltd (SML). The OSP is examining possible procurement breaches, including a sole-sourced contract awarded to a company other than the one approved by the GACL Board,” part of the post, which was shared on Thursday, July 31, 2025, read. The OSP indicated that the three men were charged and were detained after failing to meet the bail conditions that were set for their release. Short hair won’t stop double-salary scandals’ – Ras Mubarak fires back at Haruna Iddrisu The wait is over! The GhanaWeb Excellence Awards 2025 is officially launched. Let’s Celebrate impact, innovation and excellence across Ghana. Who deserves to be honoured this year? Nominate now 👉 https://ghanaweb.com/ghanaexcellenceawards/nominate
