{"id":274982,"date":"2011-01-28T00:16:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T00:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=49722"},"modified":"2011-01-28T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T00:16:39","slug":"kwesi-pratt-challenges-president-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/28\/kwesi-pratt-challenges-president-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Pratt Challenges President Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_36006\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36006\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-36006\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/21\/i%e2%80%99m-fed-up-with-all-these-noises-from-ndc-npp-pratt\/kwesi-pratt\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36006\" title=\"Kwesi Pratt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Kwesi-Pratt.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Pratt Jnr\" width=\"230\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Managing Director of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nManaging Editor of the Insight  Newspaper and leading member of the Committee for Joint Action (CJA)  Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has challenged President John Mills to fight the  financial impropriety which is being perpetrated under his watch.<br \/>\nAccording  to Kwesi Pratt, he has personally known President Mills for over 30  years and can vouch for his personal sincerity and incorruptibility but  allowing corruption to flourish under his watch leaves much to be  desired.<br \/>\nMr Pratt was speaking on the sidelines of a press  conference that was addressed by the Committee for Joint Action  outlining the huge amounts of monies lost at the Ministries, Departments  and Agencies.<br \/>\nAlmost 3 billion Ghana cedis cannot be accounted  for in 2009 alone and about 530 million lost in 2008, all due to  financial irregularities and misappropriation. The figures were  contained in the Auditor General\u2019s report on the Public Accounts of  2009.<br \/>\nMr Pratt urged President Mills to ensure that  investigations are carried out to smoke out persons perpetrating these  corrupt practices. \u201cI have known Professor John Atta Mills for well over  30 years; I can vouch for his sincerity and his personal commitment.  Indeed If I ever heard that he has personally been corrupt I will be  completely shocked and yet this is the report the Auditor General has  written about 2009, a year in which he was President of the republic\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis  clearly should emphasize the point that personal sincerity and  commitment is not sufficient and that something else needs to happen.  What are the institutions for fighting corruption, what are the  institutions for insisting on accountability, probity and all of that?  If those institutions do not work our personal sincerity and commitment  fails in doing things that are significant\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper and leading member of the Committee for Joint Action (CJA) Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has challenged President John Mills to fight the financial impropriety which is being perpetrated under his watch. 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