Ghanaian Parliament finds no evidence of bribes
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on 3News
Ghana’s Parliament found no evidence that an MP or parliamentary official received the alleged $46,000 in bribes in the AKSA Energy case. Speaker Alban Bagbin referred the internal report to the Office of the Special Prosecutor for further checks, according to 3News.
Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, referred to the Office of the Special Prosecutor of Ghana a report from an internal investigation into the 2015 electricity contract with AKSA Energy, after the review found no evidence of bribes being paid to MPs or parliamentary staff. Mr Bagbin announced the referral to MPs on 11 November 2026.
The administrative investigation examined parliamentary debate records, minutes of sittings and the files of the Mines and Energy Committee, while collecting testimony from current and former parliamentary officials as well as a former committee chairman. The emergency electricity contract was presented to Parliament on 23 June 2015, considered by the committee on 16 July, and approved the following day.
Mr Bagbin nevertheless stressed that the internal findings exonerate no one and do not establish that no illicit payment could have taken place outside Parliament. As the investigation was not criminal in nature, its authors did not have the power to obtain bank statements, compel the production of documents or take sworn testimony.
The parliamentary review follows the conviction, on 6 August 2026, of former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Kwaku Berko by a federal jury in Brooklyn in a corruption case. Ghana had already said on 10 August that it could investigate corruption allegations linked to AKSA Energy in an article about those proceedings, the investigation into AKSA Energy corruption allegations.
