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Mahama: Ethical, moral uprightness will ensure absolute accountability

Former President John Dramani Mahama has stated that African governments and state institutions need ethical and moral uprightness as guiding principles to ensure probity, transparency and accountability.

“In Africa, we need ethical, moral uprightness as guiding principles, a stoic fidelity to the truth and to do right by our people above all other considerations towards absolute probity, transparency and accountability,” he intimated.

Former President Mahama stressed on the need for absolute accountability to be rendered by African governments and all state institutions as one of the surest ways of curing the systemic challenges that affected Africans.

“Absolute probity, transparency and accountability must not just be provided by governments but by the institutions of state in service to the people and not themselves, will go a long way to remedy many of the systemic problems that affect our African people.

An Electoral Commission which is a state institution in service to the people owes it a sacred duty of care to them by ensuring they are included in the electoral processes and not excluded in the interest of the incumbent administration and the media must report facts without bias, and also to hold governments accountable.

“A judiciary owes it a duty to deliver impartial justice to the citizenry, an Ombudsman owes a duty of care to the people to investigate all issues of malfeasance, a police force should exist to serve citizens and not rein terror on them, an electoral commission owes a sacred duty of care to the people by ensuring they are included in the electoral processes.

“They must not be excluded in the interest of the incumbent administration, an independent media owes it to citizens to not only report facts without bias, but to hold duty bearers accountable,” former President Mahama pointed out.

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