In a current address, previous President John Mahama highly slammed the Akufo-Addo administration, declaring that it has actually led Ghana into a state of widespread corruption
Speaking throughout an end-of-year session with present Members of Parliament and potential 2024 NDC parliamentary prospects, Mahama asserted that corruption stays a substantial barrier impeding the nation’s development.
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He highlighted that efforts to suppress corruption have actually shown inefficient and, rather, the problem has actually intensified with time. Mahama highlighted the immediate requirement for definitive action to resolve the prevalent issue and its damaging influence on Ghana’s advancement.
“Currently, corruption has actually broken out and it is running riot all over the nation. Ghanaians have actually established the syndrome I call scandal tiredness due to the fact that if you have a scandal every week, you get exhausted, so everyone is tired of talking about NPP’s corruption.
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“Just when you believe you have actually seen the worst of it, they increase to even brand-new levels that you can never ever envision. Among those being the current SML contract. One questions how they might have sat and conspired to dupe the country with such an agreement,” he stated.
Mr. Mahama’s review of the Akufo-Addo administration accompanies a robust defense presented by the President concerning his performance history in dealing with corruption. Throughout the launch of the evaluation of Ghana’s inaugural nationwide anti-corruption action strategy, President Akufo-Addo emphatically refuted the label of being a “cleaning representative.”
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According to President Akufo-Addo, “Every single supposed act of corruption levelled versus any of my appointees has actually been examined by private bodies such as the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and some cases by Parliament.”
“It is not my task to clear or found guilty an individual implicated of misbehavior or of taking part in any acts of misbehavior. In spite of the efforts of some to tag me as a cleaning representative.
“That is the task of the courts and the police. My task is to act upon claims of corruption by referring the problems to the appropriate investigative firm for the pertinent questions and action consisting of if essential the suspension of the impacted authorities pending the conclusion of the examination, that is precisely what has actually been done because I presumed the mantle of management,”he stated.
He kept in mind considering that he presumed workplace as President, “no proof or accusation has actually been upcoming that the Executive i.e. myself as President has actually made any effort to affect the result of any of these examinations. The most recent episode including the previous Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah appears for all to see.”
He likewise stated the nation has actually made amazing development in the battle versus corruption under his administration.