Ghana’s former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has expressed serious doubts about Ghana’s ability to obtain meaningful criminal evidence from any investigation into the Asante Berko-AKSA bribery scandal, warning that the case could end without prosecutions.
In a strongly worded article published on August 18, 2026, Amidu said “nothing useful by way of evidential results” would emerge from a Ghanaian investigation into the alleged corruption and money transactions linked to the AKSA deal.
He believes the evidence in the matter will be suppressed in Ghana.
“I sincerely believe and conclude from the bottom of my heart that nothing useful by way of evidential results would come out of any Ghanaian investigation into the Asante-Aksa-Ghana corruption, corruption related and other criminal offences such as money laundry deals that were consummated between 2014 and 2017 leading to the conviction of the principal facilitator of the corruption transactions, Asante Kwaku Berko, by the Unted States District Court Eastern District of New York on 6 August 2026. The evidence will be suppressed”.
His comments follow the conviction of Asante Kwaku Berko by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on August 6, 2026.
According to Martin Amidu, the government should not attempt to pursue equalisation because the bribery occurred in 2016.
He said, “The Asante Berko-Aksa-Ghana bribery deal for which Asante Berko was convicted in the US on 6 August 2026 relates only to the bribery and corruption of public officials of the John Mahama government between 2014 and the early part of 2017, after Berko had resigned from Goldman Sachs in December 2016 to enable investigations into his conduct”.
“It had nothing to do with bribery and corruption during the Nana Akufo-Addo’s government. Of course, the corruption transaction involving AKSA continued, as some payments were made in July 2018
according to the investigation from the OSP.
“There is, however, a concerted attempt by the government to present the conviction of Asante Berko in the US for bribery as having been committed during the tenures of the Mahama National Democratic Congress government (2013-2016) and the Akufo-Addo New Patriotic Party government (2017 -2024).
“The AKSA bribery might have continued bipartisanly in Parliament and under the Nana Akufo-Addo government and continues to date, as AKSA has become an institution in Ghana.
“But any attempt to extend the conviction of Asante Berko as involving criminal activities beyond December 2016, when he resigned from Goldman Sachs for internal investigations for his misconduct, will be an attempt to establish equalisation, as the government did in 2012 with the Justice Appau Commission of Enquiry,” he said.
