Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng told a news conference in Accra that the Supreme Court's decision marks a turning point for his office, clearing the way for Ghana to pursue its own line of inquiry into a bribery scheme US prosecutors say ran between 2014 and 2015 around a 370 megawatt Tema thermal plant deal with Turkish firm Aksa Enerji.
Alongside Donkor, Agyebeng named energy expert Francis Woolley-Kwesi Dzata, former ministry deputy director Solomon Asiedu-Asare, and two Tricorp Group Limited figures, Lyndon George Nii Saul Mettle and Baffuor Ankoma Brobbey, as persons of interest. Additional scrutiny is also falling on current and past staff at VRA, GRIDCo, ECG, PURC and the old Power Ministry.
The SP said his office had quietly fed the FBI evidence through Ghana's mutual legal assistance framework, work the US Justice Department itself called "significant." But he pushed back hard on the idea that a US conviction automatically means guilt at home. Nobody gets charged in Ghana, he said, just because their name showed up in an American courtroom; the evidence has to stand on its own.
Agyebeng also used the moment to swing at doubters of the OSP's relevance, inviting them to actually check the numbers. He pointed to 33 people currently facing prosecution, 79 cases in full investigation, 161 more at preliminary stage, seven convictions via plea deals, and GH¢8.5 million plus $2 million in cash recovered as of last December. He capped it with a fresh push for expanded powers, including non-conviction asset seizures and a reverse-onus regime for unexplained wealth.
