Mustapha Abdul Hamid vs OSP: First, he called the case useless publicly, confidently, and on video, before his own lawyers had finished reading the charge sheet.
Then he went to court.
Today, Dr Mustapha Abdul Hamid now stands as the first accused in a corruption case involving conspiracy to commit extortion, extortion, abuse of office, and money laundering amounting to over GH₵291 million and US$332,000. He faces fifty four counts alongside nine co accused. This is the very same case he dismissed as empty noise.
Yet, in a stunning reversal, he has now filed an application arguing that the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has no power to prosecute it and must first obtain permission from the Attorney General. In other words, the case once mocked as empty is now said to be so serious that it requires a constitutional shield to stop it.
Before his lawyers could fully study the amended charges, Mustapha Hamid was already boasting in public that the case had collapsed. At his online defense stood Lawyer Akbar, the chief soloist of the “useless case” choir, loudly assuring the public that nothing would come of it, right up until the moment the law demanded otherwise. They spoke early, loudly, and with absolute certainty. Now the tune has changed.
The same lawyers who told the public there was “nothing to answer” are now racing to the Court to ensure they never have to answer. The same man who ridiculed the process now invokes it for protection.
If the case were truly useless, it would not require this level of urgency, choreography, or fear.
If the OSP genuinely lacks power, the court would discover that in the normal course of proceedings. There would be no need for rushed applications or sudden constitutional gymnastics.
People do not file injunctions against jokes.
They do not litigate shadows they are not afraid of.
More revealing still is the panic over procedure. The court has been forced to adjourn because the defense is scrambling to ensure all accused persons are served before the 22 December 2025. Procedure, unlike bravado, insists on order.
So here we are.
A case mocked as useless now demands emergency brakes and the full armour of legal defence.
This is not confidence or principle.
It is not even strategy.
The courts do not need noise to dismiss a weak case. They only need evidence. That is why the shouting exists. Not because the case is dead, but because it is very much alive.
A truly useless case would not terrify this many lawyers.
Kay Codjoe
