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The 2016 presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, is skeptical about plans by President-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo to create the office of an Independent prosecutor to fight corruption.

According to him, this will not necessarily be an efficient way of dealing with the corruption canker in the country.

President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo had argued that such office will be devoid of political influence and will help him fight corruption which had plagued the country.

Speaking on phone on ATV’s Kanawu weekend political show in Accra, Dr.Nduom reiterated his previous call on government to decouple the Ministry of Justice from the Attorney General’s office saying that it is a first step to winning the fight against corruption in the country.

He said, “when you have an Attorney General who is a cabinet member and is the most powerful person in terms of fighting corruption, how is that possible in our part of the world that you sit there with your colleague and you are the one who will look at your colleague and say you are a thief, you have stolen money from the state and you have done something against us.”

Meanwhile a member of the NPP communication team Michael Omane Wadie who was on the show agree on Dr. Nduom’s call for a separation of the Attorney General Office from the Office of Minister of Justice.

He stated that attorney general’s office will be there with full independence devoid of political influence and shall become the people’s Lawyer and offer the legal services to the citizens of Ghana.

He added that it would assist and partner the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Immigration Service, EOCO, BNI and Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) to investigate and prosecute Civil and Criminal Cases in Courts on behalf of the Republic of Ghana.