Kissi Agyebeng

Kissi Agyebeng is a Ghanaian lawyer, academic, and the Special Prosecutor of Ghana as of 2021. Prior to his appointment, he was a lecturer at the University of Ghana, Managing Partner at Cromwellgray LLP, and the Chairman of the Electronic Communications Tribunal of Ghana.

Quotes

 * We are confronted by two pandemics. One is a health crisis and its outlook is very macabre, the other, there’s not a health crisis, but it is also a pandemic, which is corruption itself and corruption-related activities. The zeal with which the administration has approached the fight in respect of the health crisis. I also see in respect of the other pandemic, which is corruption
 * | He made this statement during his swearing-in ceremony at the Jubilee House by President Akufo-Addo on Thursday, August 5, 2021
 * If there are allegations that you mismanaged the resources of the committee, I won’t sleep over it. I will come after you
 * | He made this statement during a TV interview with Joy News on 10 June 2023
 * Are we ready for the fight against corruption?, from where I sit, I don’t think we are. We expect so much from the institutions fighting corruption, but collectively, are we ready?
 * |He made this statement during a TV interview with Joy News on 10 June 2023
 * I wish I were you to also have the luxury to consecrate someone or some person as a saint in respect of which nothing should be done to them but where I sit, I do not have that luxury to treat [someone] as a saint and when saints are being consecrated I don’t get the memo. I am the conscience of the nation, I am the spirit of the nation, the office is the conscience of the nation, the office is the spirit of the nation, where we sit we look at everybody in the same manner
 * |He made this statement during a TV interview with Joy News on 10 June 2023
 * No, you think no one offended me before I became a Special Prosecutor? Why then don’t I use my power and go back and start making the list of all the people who crossed me or the people who fell out of favour with me and start going after them? This is not how we conduct business. The Attorney General is a friend of mine but that doesn’t mean I am going to settle scores for any named individual but if you have your fight with someone in court, that is your kettle of fish
 * |He made this statement when asked whether the OSP is a weapon against opposition of the government during a TV interview with Joy News on 10 June 2023
 * The issues of state capture, corruption, and fraud are a collective pandemic in our part of the world. This tri-malady has every intention of staying with us unless we act.
 * "State capture, corruption ingrained in society like rituals – Kissi Agyebeng" CitiNewsRoom (May 1,2023)