Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has alleged that he was taken to the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), formerly the BNI, during his brief detention at the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), accusing the OSP of improperly involving state security agencies in matters outside their lawful mandate.
Speaking on Channel One’s Newsroom on Thursday, December 4, Kpebu recounted that what he described as a minor verbal exchange with a military officer at the entrance of the OSP headquarters escalated into an “unlawful” transfer to the NIB.
He said the situation was handled so poorly that his lawyers could not immediately determine his location.
According to him, involving the NIB in such a matter amounted to a misuse of state institutions.
“BNI, can you imagine? Over exchange of words with a soldier. That attracted BNI incarceration, can you imagine if it was robbery or corruption and corruption related like that, they don’t need BNI, they need super BNI. It is just an ordinary case of a soldier abusing a citizen and the citizen standing out for his rights. And they said, ‘take him to BNI.’ It is a very shameful conduct,” he stated.
Kpebu argued that the incident reflects a troubling pattern in which the OSP deploys powerful security agencies in ways that contradict their intended roles.
He further maintained that Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng, along with the OSP’s Director of Strategy, Research and Communications, Sammy Darko, and Lead Investigator Albert Akurugu, lack the competence to manage the institution effectively.
His comments follow the December 3 incident in which he visited the OSP to assist with investigations into corruption allegations he had previously made against Agyebeng. Kpebu said he was detained briefly after a confrontation with a military officer at the OSP entrance before investigators could engage him, and was later released.
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