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The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) was first established in the 1964 Constitution. The constitutional reforms which were on the agenda at the time, had provided for the conversion of the post of Procureur General into that of an Attorney General. However, the power of the Procureur to prosecute crime was vested in the newly created post of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) which, it was agreed, would be independent of the political executive. This was made clear in the Constitution which expressly provided that in the exercise of his power, the Director of Public Prosecutions shall not be subject to the direction or control of any other person or authority. Professor S.A De Smith in his 1964 Report as Constitutional Commissioner explained the rationale behind the independent Constitutional status of the DPP which according to him stemmed from the need “to safeguard the stream of criminal justice from being polluted by the inflow of noxious political contamina

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