Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Klottey-Korle Constituency in Accra has made a call for ethical leadership to do away with the canker of corruption in Africa.
The Ghanaian legislator made this call while contributing to a panel discussion on good governance on the African continent at the Socialists and Democrats Group (S&D Group) Africa Week 2018, held at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.
The Ghanaian MP, stated that institutions on the continent require leaders who stand on the moral high ground.
She said, “It doesn’t matter how perfect an institution is, if the people within the institution do not display a certain level of high morality or ethics, it will be corrupt.”
She further stated that the cultural context and socio-economic situations in Africa are “crucial to good governance, and the establishment and consolidation of democracy.”
Dr. Rawlings who was at the event to represent the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the largest opposition party in Ghana said, "poverty and greed are drivers of corruption."
“If people are not impoverished, if people are economically empowered, no one can bribe them to make a choice.”
She also chided Western nations for putting their economic interests above human rights in the developing world.
“Until we reach a point where economic interests are no more important than fundamental human rights we won’t see an end to these problems. The sustainability of democracy is in making sure that all people are treated equal, and not put another country’s economic interest ahead of the fundamental human rights of the less fortunate.”
Dr. Zanetor Rawlings who is the first daughter of former President of Ghana and the founder of the NDC, J.J Rawlings, is a rising star on the Ghanaian political landscape who appeals to the youth, and highly tipped to be selected as former President John Dramani Mahama’s running mate to contest the 2020 presidential elections.
The Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats – the second largest political group with 190 members from all European Union countries, plays a key role in the field of Africa-EU relations, and has been working for a renewed Africa-EU partnership as a key political priority over the past years.
Source: Emmanuel Akorl/Parliamentary Correspondent, Peace FM
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Tell this to your corrupt father and your corrupt (P)NDC members first.... Your father used our stolen money to educate you and your siblings abroad and destroyed our education at home....... Shuttt uppp and get lost......
LOOK AT WHO IS TALKING ABOUT CORRUPTION.ITS THE CORRUPT ATTITUDE OF YOUR FATHER DOES GOT YOU WHERE YOU ARE TODAY.GO ASK YOUR FATHER.A LEGISLATOR INDEED. NOW MANY GHANAINS ARE DISCERNING THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR FAMILY AND LETS MARK IT YOU WILL NEVER BECOME PRESIDENT IN GHANA.MURDERS AND THIEFFFFS.
Where is the socialism in the ndc? ndc understanding of socialism is to create l000*00t and share! they talk of socialism but practice vice! Dr Zanetor Rawlings becareful of associating yourself with that man called John mahama he is in for his economic association not anything better for Ghana, he needs your father to campaign for him to come back and throw him overboard after getting power and make you look like a rug the same way he treated the late Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur ! Focus on your mp to learn more about governance than following a derailed train that want to move with half on the track, a conman and an indiscipline former president. Do your own thing and fight for your own course not a failed man choosing you to join his failed train. It will be better of you stand on your own than allowing john mahama who is going no where to destroy your political career. Remember he was the sitting president and was booted out so what shows the people will bring him back when he has what the people disliked about him still on him in opposition? don't be deceived by his ndc rented crowd for they are the same who voted for him in 2016 and sent him to opposition!