Ken is ready to return but…- Gabby Otchere-Darko

Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States, Victor Emmanuel Smith, has disclosed that Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a cousin of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, called him to say the former minister was willing to return to Ghana to defend himself but was concerned about possible mistreatment.

Speaking on the Saturday, January 17, 2026, edition of TV3’s Key Points programme, Ambassador Smith said associates of the former minister had raised similar concerns.

He later revealed that it was the private legal practitioner who personally contacted him.

“… he thinks that is a worry that his cousin has. And I said, Who’s going to harass him? He has to go through a process, and the Attorney General told me that he will be taken through the due process like anybody else,” Smith said.

“I had a call from Gabriel [Gabby] Otchere-Darko. He expressed that worry, and I assured him that you have to go through the due process. I mean, everybody goes through the due process of law, so there’s not going to be people attacking him. We don’t behave like that,” he added.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has officially charged Mr Ofori-Atta with 78 counts of corruption and related offences, including issues linked to a GHS 125 million contract between the Ghana Revenue Authority and Strategic Mobilisation Limited, the National Cathedral project, ambulance procurement, and electricity company contracts.

Mr Ofori-Atta is currently in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is being held at the Caroline Detention Facility in Virginia, pending a court hearing on January 20, 2026, which could lead to his deportation…CONTINUE MORE READING>>>