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
The demonstrations stem from 78 counts of corruption and related offences filed against Ofori-Atta and seven others by the Special Prosecutor’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)’s capabilities, payments for unperformed services, and abuse of office. These stem from a “criminal enterprise” 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