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The Sole Commissioner, Justice Yaw Apau has warned against the politicization of investigations into the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Drill Ship sale saga. The Commission�s warning comes after the Commissioner was accused of bias when former GNPC boss, Tsatsu Tsikata, former Minister of Energy Minister under the Kufuor administration, Albert Kan- Dapaah and his deputy, K.T Hammond took their turns to answer questions of the drill ship last week. According to critics, the Sole Commissioner was more lenient with Mr Tsikata and harsh with Mr. Kan- Dapaah and K.T Hammond; an accusation the Commissioner has described as needless. The lead Counsel for the Sole Commissioner, Dometi Kofi-Sokpor said: �The politicization of this matter will not help the country in any way.� He suggested that attention should rather be focused on the system failure which left to the sale of the drill ship and the untraceable money because �the Commission is not targeting any group of persons in a particular political party. What we are doing is to unearth and unravel whatever surrounds this particular drill ship that has been sold.� Kofi-Sokpor said that the investigation by the Commission �has nothing to do with any political party whatsoever.� He clarified that the Mr. Tsikata, Kan-Dapaah and KT Hammond played different roles in the matter and so �certainly, the questions wouldn�t be the same.� �Persons who are politicizing this whole issue must put a stop to it and save the country the bother of running into some abyss that that you will never be able to recover it any longer,� he cautioned.