Samson's Take: The OSP getting it right. #Newsfile

Welcome back. This NewsFile is your most authoritative news analysis platform. And here in NewsFile, we put Ghana first. And here is something stake. I'm talking about the OSP getting it right now. I must have been the very first person to have done pieces about the OSP and the OSP act, particularly as it

concerns plea bargaining when it was being passed and after the act was passed. Plea bargaining was first formally provided for in the OSP act in our jurisprudence. Plea bargain is a decision a lawyer gets their client to make not lightly not lightly at all. The kind we do in Ghana often involves the accused pleading

guilty. You only escape sentence or jail on account of making refunds, payments, and restitution, helping the state with actionable intelligence and evidence to catch more or even bigger thieves. It doesn't take away the conviction that hangs around your neck. You become an exconvict. That's what everybody wants to avoid. In 2015, the state, that's the BNI and the

attorney general, retrieved over 30 million in the National Service Secretariat scandal before the trial was botched. William Atuisian managed to pay 30 million of the 90 million debts before his imprisonment in 2023. And that's why I was unhappy that the attorney general Gfred Dami failed for whatever reasons to accept the plea offer offer of €2

million only to lose the case in the end. at a court of appeal. It's been public that I was lawyer for a number of those NSS staff who did a plea bargaining then and also that I have been representing at in the civil case against shareholders and debtors of capital bank. One thing is clear, the