Acting Head of Research and Policy for the Ghana Anti Corruption Coalition, Samuel Harrison-Cudjoe, has indicted the current NPP administration, accusing the ruling party of only good in talking about corruption but lacking the balls to fight the canker.
To him, the mere fact of setting up an Office of the Special Prosecutor does not fight corruption, pointing out that "enforcing the law and not pretending to enforce" the law will achieve results.
The anti-corruption Campaigner also took the NDC to the cleaners saying the opposition party only "petends to be checking government on corruption", slamming them for doing "equally little" to fight the menace when they were in power.
Samuel Harrison-Cudjoe was speaking on Okay FM's "Egyaso Gyaso" programme on the performance of NPP in fighting corruption since assuming office in 2017.
He lamented that consistently Ghana has been dropping in world ranking on corruption perception index published by Transparency International, and urged political commitment to deal with the issue that is robbing the nation of millions that could be used in development.
" . . despite the numerous promises and assurances to be better than NDC, they (NPP) have failed to tackle corruption head-on," the acting Research and Policy officer at the GACC added.
The promise by Vice President Dr. Bawumia that the criminal Act, Act 29 was to be amended to make corruption a felony, is yet to be fulfilled since the NPP government took office.
“Government, since 2017, has been engaged in putting together an architecture that will help in the fight against corruption. This architecture is built on three pillars,” said the Vice President.
“First is the legal framework. The laws must not only be there, but they have to be enforced. Second is the strengthening of institutions that fight corruption; if you don’t resource the institutions, how do you expect them to fight corruption? The third is to deal with a system that prevents corruption. If you don’t have a transparent system, then you allow corruption to get under the radar and survive.”
On the legal framework, Dr. Bawumia said the passage of the Witness Protection Act in 2018 (Act 959), which gives protection to witnesses who testify against corruption, the passage of the Right to Information Act after over 20 years of consideration, the passage of the Companies Act 2019, that gives legal backing for a beneficial ownership register, the Special Prosecutor Law, etc. are some legal reforms the government of Nana Akufo-Addo has undertaken in its fight against corruption.
Dr. Bawumia also cited the increment in budgetary allocations for state institutions that fight corruption as a demonstration of the commitment to fight corruption by the Nana Akufo-Addo government.
“Government has increased allocations to all accountability institutions including Parliament, the Judiciary, CHRAJ, EOCO, Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice, Office of the Special Prosecutor and the Ghana Police.”
“The operational budget of CHRAJ, for example, has increased from 1.8m Ghana Cedis in 2016 to GHC 5m in 2019. And in 2020, the allocation is GHC 12.2m. It has moved from GHC1.8 to GHC 12.2 million for CHRAJ, just for the operational budget,” Dr. Bawumia noted.
Watch video below
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority. |
NPP administration,the ruling party of only good in talking about corruption but lacking the balls to fight the canker.
When people are being citizens and not spectators then you people have resulted to insults . Your insults will vote for you. Ghanaians are watching and quiet not because all is well.
Hahahahahahaha Coalition Of Noise Makers. I am fed-up with coalition these coalition that aaaba... Gh.
Massa I also wonder how some people and so called coalition have allowed themselves to be used by John Mahama aka John Ford and his Incompetent Corrupt party NDC. Stomach Infrastructure Building Coalition and Think Tanks shame1ess do turn their eyes on the good things this gov't is doing for the country all becos of CH0PCH0P from the opposition NDC and TIO.
Hmmmmmmmmm, each day I cry and laugh at Dr Bawumia for allowing himself to be used. After 2024 I wonder how he will be treated. Let us pray for him seriously
When did this also happened to Ghana. Ghana anti corruption what? coalition? coalition of lazy, corrupt ***barred word*** educated elites,if America had such people in that country as their reliable youth to build their nation America will be in ground zero and if China had such unthinkable lazy fo*ols behaving like they dictate who should rule Ghana because of democracy China would have been a jungle.How do we develop when they go to school come back to form coalition of nonse*nse instead of thinking kritically to help build the nation. How has that coalition helped to fight their so called corruption? talk is cheap and Ghana politics is very cheap that any id*iot can form a coalition and call it corruption watch dogs when they themselves are ***barred word***! make use of your education by thinking kritically instead of forming coalitions for attention for the Western youth think kritically and bring out new inventions not busying themselves to watch corrupt politicians when the nation has institutions for that! lazy people find something to do with your brains and hands to benefit the nation! Use*less civil society!
as soon as somebody gets arrested, they cry polities or witch hunt.
Always posting negative stuffs whilst corruption is at their doorsteps. No one in that so called GACC can say they’re not corrupt themselves. If they’ve seen any corruption going on somewhere they should go to court rather than making such bogus submissions. Y’abre mo, tweaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Ghana Anti Corruption Coalition should educate the people involve in corruption to stop for God's sake. Ghana Anti Corruption Coalition should also intensify their campaign and organize programs to educate the people the consequences of corruption. This is too much for Ghana. The legal system is very slow and this is due to political interference.