The Office of the Special Prosecutor office, which was expected to prosecute corrupt public officials, has hit an embarrassing snag after city authorities ordered it to stop renovation of the office and produce the permit approving the construction work.

The new body led by Martin Amidu which is expected to whip public official into being law abiding was seriously exposed to be lawless as the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) slapped the building with the warning.

The relatively bigger office space allocated to the Office of the Special Prosecutor in October 2018, has been marked with the ‘Stop work and produce permit’ inscription by officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), a situation that hampers the ongoing construction of a fence-wall.

This means ongoing renovation works inside the facility will also be affected.

The instruction for the permit to be produced, was issued on 16th of January, 2019.

It is unclear what kind of paperwork had been done on the building before it was released to the critical state institution, and whether this action by the AMA will really mean anything significant for the office.

When contacted, the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Accra, Nii Adjei Sowah, said on Eyewitness News that the office of the Special Prosecutor had to provide his office with their permits before they would be allowed to continue with the construction.