{"id":394566,"date":"2017-06-06T14:06:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/06\/fighting-corruption-akufo-addo-must-be-bold-and-strong-prof-adei\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:06:04","slug":"fighting-corruption-akufo-addo-must-be-bold-and-strong-prof-adei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/06\/fighting-corruption-akufo-addo-must-be-bold-and-strong-prof-adei\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting corruption: Akufo-Addo must be bold and strong \u2013 Prof. Adei"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Nana Kufo-Addo.<\/p>\n

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Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ashesi University, Professor Stephen Adei says President Nana Akufo-Addo will have to be daring and tough to succeed in the fight against graft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Akufo-Administration since taking office in January 2017, has indicated its resolve not to spare anyone proven to have embezzled state funds.<\/p>\n

Nana Akufo-Addo recently stated at a public event, he will not be talked out of prosecuting corrupt public officers despite attempts by some officials to use his wife to plead on their behalf.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Realising how challenging this task could be for the President and his administration, Prof. Stephen Adei said the few anti-graft campaigners such as Martin Amidu otherwise known as \u2018Citizen Vigilante,\u2019 must stand by their leader to be merciless in prosecuting offenders. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moral minority must now stand up and be counted\u2026As much as we are bemoaning, we should identify them. If we should have 50 \u2018Martin Amidus\u2019, you can imagine what we can do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should encourage the current president to be bold and strong,\u201d the former GIMPA Rector told Nhyira Addo, host of the Super Morning Show on Joy FM.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday\u2019s edition of the Show was transmitted live from the premises of Ashesi University, Brekusu near Accra. The institution this week, organized a 6-day workshop dubbed \u2018The Education Collaborative at Ashesi\u2019 which began on Sunday, June 4 and is expected to end Friday, June 9, 2017.<\/p>\n

Lack of moral ethics<\/b><\/p>\n

A discussant on the Show, Dr. Alex Awity who is also Director of East African Institute at Aga Khan University, Kenya, says Africa is faced with many challenges mainly due to the lack of moral ethical leadership on the continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur leaders are corrupt to hell. And this is across the continent from South Africa to Egypt,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Dr. Awiti said the development has resulted in a shortfall in people of noble character to serve as role models for the younger generation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things we have to really grapple with is where will those ethical leaders come from? How will they be produced? Where are the role models in society?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a figure who is notable as a political leader, not even a clergy, not even a faith leader, not even a teacher or a professor, not even an ethical businessman. It is because we have no moral compass as a society,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

Listen to the discussion in the audio attached:<\/b><\/p>\n