Member of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) legal team, Gary Nimako downplayed  concerns that Kissi Agyebeng is not of age enough to take up the job of Special Prosecutor.

The former Member of Parliament for Tamale Central argued that the Special Prosecutor nominee, Kissi Agyabeng is is too young to fight against corruption in the country, because in his opinion, the position is risky, as such requires someone who is advanced in age to handle.

“Did the President search well enough and not found a worthy replacement for Martin Amidu other than Kissi Agyebeng? Why did the President settle on Agyebeng, when Agyebeng after seven years will be around 50 years? He quizzed.

“The Special Prosecutor’s position which is a risky job needs someone who is further advanced in life to resist any form of temptations due to how complicated the fight against corruption is” Mr. Inusah stressed.

But reacting to the concerns, Mr Nimako in an interview with Joy Fm, monitored by Ghanaguardian.com said there are stipulations on age requirement for the position in the law that established the office of the Special Prosecutor.

“If you look at the office there is a clear guideline as to the qualification criteria, I have not seen in the law that you must be 50, 55 or 45 years before you are qualified to be in the position. So the question about age, with all respect to Hon Fuseini is neither here nor there. Because he was in parliament when the law was being passed and no age was put in the law, so the issue about age to me is a no starter.”

Gary Nimako intimated that the appointment of a young person should rather be commended, urging that Mr Agyabeng should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

“The issue about public advocacy is not the same as being given the work to do and the result you produce while you are given the work. You see the number of statements that we all saw from Martin Amidu prior to the appointment and the work he did when he was given the position is there for all to judge. Lets allow Mr Kissi Agyebeng to go to vetting. Let’s allow him, if parliament approves, to take the office and let’s judge him by the work he does.”

"What I expect to be done is that by God willing he passes the parliamentary approval, and builds a very solid formidable office of special prosecutor, made up of experienced prosecutors who will be there.” he added.