Anti-corruption Consultant and Chief Crusader for Crusaders Against Corruption, Ghana, has blamed the sitting president for the low rates chalked in the fight against corruption in the country.
Mr Emmanuel Wilson Jnr blamed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the low standards in the fight against corruption when he appeared on the maiden edition of the afternoon socio-political show, ‘Citizen Show’ hosted by Nana Kwabena Bobie Ansah on Accra 100.5 FM on Wednesday, February 1, 2023.
According to him, he became very alarmed as an anti-corruption crusader when he saw the president’s nepotistic list of appointees in 2017.
“The list of the president’s appointees was a slap in the face of the fight against corruption” he noted.
“I knew from the onset that the fight against corruption was going to be a daunting task under the president with the list of nepotistic appointees” he said.
According to him, corruption thrives in a nepotistic environment and if the environment is created corruption will survive.
In his view, the list of appointees made up of the president’s cronies and family members was the reason the country has fallen in the corruption perception index.
He stressed that Ghana has continued to fall below the bar in the last couple of years in the fight against corruption under the administration of the president.
He narrated that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) manifesto in 2016 has seven policies on fighting corruption yet none of these policies has been implemented except that of the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
“The president’s lack of commitment in the fight against corruption has contributed to the high levels of naked corruption in government and outside the government” he said.
He argued that the president has created conditions that are making corruption and related activities thrive in the country.
He bemoaned the corruption phenomenon in the country in recent times, particularly under this government.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com
