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Govt’s corruption fight not inspiring – Kofi Bentil

Kofi Bentil, the Senior Vice President of IMANI Africa, has bemoaned the government’s approach for fighting corruption and questioned approaches towards amidst concerns is not inspiring confidence in real gains being made.

“Although the president while in opposition promised to use the Anas Aremeyaw Anas method to fight corruption, the refrain has changed because the Anas method brings you graphic evidence in fighting corruption.

“We have zero of that promise. I think it is kind of thing that excites us and gives a sense we are doing something to fight corruption, complaints by the Office of the Special Prosecutor about not having logistics to work is not complementary to the government.

“The government must do more to fight the perception of its officials being corrupt, you are dealing with corruption perception and the citizenry are saying the government is not doing well, these are the institutions supposed to be doing the work, you must do it, be seen to be doing it because that is what governance is and that is how perception is formed,” Mr Bentil lamented.

 Dr Kojo Asante, a Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Democratic Development-Ghana, revealed that some civil society organisations had written to the president suggesting innovate ways of dealing with corruption.

In October this year, retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice S.A Brobbey, requested that the government expedite the provisions of logistics for the Office of the Special Prosecutor, his concern was after Martin Amidu, the Special Prosecutor, publicly criticised the government for failing to provide the needed logistics to make his work easier.

At a National Audit Forum organised by the Ghana Audit Service, Mr Amidu vented his frustrations, which had held him back from delivering on his mandate, citing lack of Legislative Instrument to give teeth to his office to bite, among others and indicated that he had no Legislative Instrument to operate with but uses common sense.

The most recent survey on corruption perception release by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana found majority of the citizenry saying corruption was on the rise. -myjoyonline.com

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