{"id":30658,"date":"2026-01-21T11:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/?p=30658"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:03:05","slug":"bring-ken-back-to-face-the-law-arise-ghana-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/bring-ken-back-to-face-the-law-arise-ghana-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Ken Back To Face The law- Arise Ghana Demo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"prose dark:prose-invert inline leading-relaxed break-words min-w-0 [word-break:break-word] prose-strong:font-medium visRefresh2026Fonts:prose-strong:font-bold [&amp;_&gt;*:first-child]:mt-0\">\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Members of the pressure group Arise Ghana intensified their campaign on Tuesday by picketing the US Embassy in Accra, urging authorities to extradite former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to Ghana to face serious corruption allegations. Protesters, brandishing placards reading \u201cBring Ken Back\u201d and \u201cOfori-Atta Must Face Justice,\u201d accused the ex-minister of fleeing to the US to evade accountability, with spokesperson Bernard Monah claiming Ofori-Atta overstayed his visa after seeking permanent residency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">The demonstrations stem from 78 counts of corruption and related offences filed against Ofori-Atta and seven others by the Special Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, led by Kissi Agyebeng, in November 2025. Ofori-Atta personally faces 28 counts, including conspiracy, illegal procurement via single-sourcing without Public Procurement Authority or parliamentary approval, pretenses about Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML)&#8217;s capabilities, payments for unperformed services, and abuse of office. These stem from a &#8220;criminal enterprise&#8221; spanning 2017-2024, where officials allegedly colluded with SML\u2014owned by co-accused Evans Adusei\u2014to defraud the state of GH\u00a21.4 billion (about $128 million), plus a halted $2.8 billion upstream petroleum audit contract. Co-accused include ex-GRA Commissioners Emmanuel Kofi Nti and Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, and Ernest Darko Akore.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Bring Ken back to face the law\u2014Arise Ghana Demo!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/khgbCUZdkj0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Ghana&#8217;s Attorney General, Dr Dominic Ayine, has formally requested the extradition of Ofori-Atta from the US, where he has been detained at Virginia&#8217;s Caroline Detention Facility since January 6, 2026, due to immigration issues. The US revoked his visa in 2025, and the Justice Department is reviewing his case under dual criminality rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Ofori-Atta must return for a fair trial to uphold justice, recover public funds, deter elite impunity, and restore trust in governance amid Ghana&#8217;s economic woes. Evading trial undermines anti-corruption efforts, signals weakness to investors, and denies Ghanaians closure on scandals like SML that fueled the debt crises. A transparent process ensures due process, potential asset forfeiture, and precedent for accountability\u2014no one is above the law. Arise Ghana vows two-week protests, possibly escalating to sleep-ins.<\/p>\n<p>Credit to Joy News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the pressure group Arise Ghana intensified their campaign on Tuesday by picketing the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-scaled.jpg",2560,1291,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-300x151.jpg",300,151,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-768x387.jpg",640,323,true],"large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-1024x516.jpg",640,323,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-1536x775.jpg",1536,775,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-2048x1033.jpg",2048,1033,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-1024x516.jpg",1024,516,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"nkyeremunews","author_link":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/author\/nkyeremunews\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/category\/general-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/category\/uncategorised\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Nkyeremu<\/a>","tag_info":"Nkyeremu","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BeFunky-collage-2026-01-21T115216.085-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30666,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30658\/revisions\/30666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}