Private legal practitioner, Kissi Agyebeng is expected to be appointed as the next Special Prosecutor (SP) by President Nana Akufo-Addo.
According to Daily Graphic, the president has penciled lawyer Kissi Agyebeng for the Special Prosecutor (SP) to replace Mr. Martin Alamisi Amidu, who resigned on November 15, 2020.
In 2019, lawyer Agyebeng was appointed by the government as the Chairman of the Electronic Communications Tribunal, a position he took over from resigned Justice Samuel Kofi Date-Bah.
His role is to oversee the affairs and adjudication of appeals at the Tribunal as stipulated in The Electronic Communications Act, 2008 (Act 775).
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He presided over the hearing of the case involving the closure of some radio stations in the country by the National Communications Authority.
Profile
Agyebeng is a private legal practitioner who has argued numerous cases before the Superior Courts of Ghana and has also been engaged in several international business transactions.
He is also a lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law, teaching and researching criminal law, international humanitarian law, international law, and corporate law.
He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Ghana and two Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University (Marine and Environmental Law) and Cornell Law School (Corporate Law and Securities Regulation).
