The Deputy Chief of Employees answerable for Administration, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, has reaffirmed authorities dedication to satisfying the anti-corruption worldwide obligations of the state as contained within the United Nations Conference In opposition to Corruption (UNCAC).
To realize this, she mentioned, the federal government would set up a State Belongings Registry to successfully shield state property, organising an inquiry into looted state lands.
The federal government, she indicated, would even be conducting a forensic audit and an inquiry into the Nationwide Cathedral scandal, and enacting the Conduct of Public Officers Invoice into legislation.
The Deputy Chief of Employees was talking on the launch of the Last Analysis Report of the National Anti-Corruption Motion Plan (NACAP) in Accra, on Friday.
The ten-year anti-corruption strategic plan was applied between 2015 and 2024 with key goals of constructing public capability to sentence and struggle corruption, make it a excessive danger, and low-gain enterprise.
It is usually to institutionalise efficiency, accountability and transparency within the public, personal and not-for revenue sectors by partaking people, media and Civil Society Organisations to report to assist fight corruption and its associated issues.
Nana Oye Bampoe Addo additional expressed disappointment with Ghana’s gradual progress in preventing corruption, regardless of a decade-long effort with NACAP.
“Over the previous three years, Ghana’s Corruption Notion Index has proven little enchancment, highlighting the persistent challenges within the struggle towards corruption in 2022 and 2023, the nation maintained a CPI rating of 43, indicating a stagnation in anti-corruption efforts,” she elaborated.
Nevertheless, she acknowledged that, final yr, the rating dropped barely to 42, signalling a decline in public belief concerning transparency and accountability.
The Deputy Chief of Employees underscored that different latest surveys on corruption by establishments corresponding to Transparency Worldwide, the Centre for Democratic Development, Ghana (CDD) Afro-barometer Stories and the Ghana Statistical Service, confirmed the dearth of progress within the struggle towards corruption.
“All these surveys have proven that corruption stays an enormous challenge in Ghana even after a number of years of implementing NACAP, and this Report has not given us a clear slate on the struggle towards corruption in Ghana,” she famous.
Nana Oye Bampoe Addo once more pledged the federal government’s commitment to the implementation of a NACAP Il, to make sure that the corruption and its associated issues had been handled.
The Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Dr Joseph Whittal, mentioned authorities adopted NACAP a decade in the past because of the immense rising public concern concerning the scale of corruption and its influence on society.
He added that NACAP was conceived as a complete technique transcending political obstacles to drive anti-corruption activities to advertise and mainstream the values of integrity, transparency and accountability in all sectors of society, and guarantee efficient enforcement of anti-corruption legal guidelines within the nation.
BY CECILIA YADA LAGBA
