The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has been petitioned to investigate former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia over alleged corruption, illicit enrichment, and potential breaches of Ghana’s political financing laws.
In a petition dated September 15, 2025, and signed by Solomon Owusu, with legal representation from Andrew Appiah-Danquah, Esq. and Edwin Godwin Buckman, the complainants cited Dr. Bawumia’s own public declarations of personally procuring more than 300 pickup vehicles for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and raising unprecedented sums of money for political campaigns.
According to the petition, these claims raise critical questions about the source and legality of the funds, possible abuse of public office, and compliance with Ghana’s Political Parties Act.
The petition referenced multiple legal frameworks as grounds for OSP jurisdiction, including the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959), the Political Parties Act, 2000 (Act 574), the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044), the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), and the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921).
The petitioners urged the OSP to:
• Investigate the origin of the funds used to procure the vehicles.
• Conduct a forensic audit of the purchases.
• Require Dr. Bawumia to make a sworn declaration of the amounts spent and their sources.
They further called for a determination on whether public or illicit funds were involved, and for the findings to be made public in the interest of transparency and accountability.
“The Office of the Special Prosecutor was created to protect the Republic from precisely this type of suspected high-level corruption,” the petition concluded.
