The Vice President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku- Agyemang, has known as for a renewed battle towards corruption throughout Africa, utilizing Ghana’s expertise for example of each early management and ongoing challenges.
Talking on the theme “Revitalising the Anti-Corruption Structure in Africa: Ghana’s Accountability Journey,” on Friday in Accra, she highlighted the pressing have to strengthen establishments, legal guidelines, and partnerships to deal with the evolving nature of corruption.
She reminded the continent that it has been 20 years because the African Union adopted its anti-corruption conference, and whereas some progress had been made, corruption had grown extra complicated.
Ghana, she famous, was among the many first international locations to ratify the conference and submit a baseline report back to the African Union Advisory Board In opposition to Corruption (AUABC), exhibiting early dedication to the trigger.
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“Ghana’s battle has been constructed on stable legal guidelines such because the Whistleblower Act, the Proper to Info Act, and the institution of the Workplace of the Particular Prosecutor.
“The Nationwide Anti-Corruption Motion Plan (NACAP), which ran from 2015 to 2024, supplied strategic path, and a second part, NACAP 2, is now being developed utilizing classes realized from the previous,” she stated.
Regardless of these efforts, the Vice President admitted that Ghana had confronted setbacks.
“Latest studies from Transparency Worldwide, the Ibrahim Index, and Ghana’s personal Statistical Service reveal disturbing tendencies,” she stated.
She stated over GH¢5 billion was misplaced to bribery in a single 12 months, including that the IMF famous that Ghana’s capability to regulate corruption had declined over the previous decade.
She acknowledged that residents remained annoyed by weak enforcement and political interference, calling these issues an indication of public demand for actual change.
To deal with these points, she praised President John Dramani Mahama’s management and renewed efforts to strengthen accountability.
The Particular Prosecutor, Mr Kissi Agyebeng, stated his outfit had mandate to get better and handle the proceeds of corruption and corruption associated offences in relation to public officers, politically uncovered individuals, and individuals within the personal sector.
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Nevertheless, he stated that the mandate was solely relevant in conviction base procedures, although the OSP was mandated to train restricted features of civil belongings restoration beneath its declaration of property and revenue regime.
As well as, Mr Agyebeng defined that the restricted scope and outlook of the supply of Article 246 (4) of the structure, and the Prison Offences Act 1960 (Act 29) additional exacerbated the battle towards corruption because it primarily centered on public officers.
He stated unexplained parts of the supply of revenue of people needs to be liable to confiscation to assist in the detection fraud and undeclared revenue for tax functions.
The board member of the AUABC, Mrs Yvonne Mutepuka Chibiya, counseled Ghana for strengthening her accountability frameworks and her dedication to the state events assessment mission performed beneath the African Union Conference on Stopping and Combating Corruption.
The AUABC, Mrs Chibiya stated, would work with Ghana to make sure that anti-corruption methods and governance methods had been enhanced and strengthened.
The Commissioner of the Fee on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Dr Joseph Whittal, highlighted the significance of the independence of the judiciary and collaboration amongst state actors within the battle towards corruption.
The Deputy Legal professional-Normal, Justice Srem-Sai, additionally stated that Ghana stood able to be taught, share, and act as she re-examined her personal accountability journey.
