{"id":443692,"date":"2017-12-05T01:38:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T01:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/05\/laws-wont-be-used-to-witchhunt-opponents-senior-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T01:38:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T01:38:22","slug":"laws-wont-be-used-to-witchhunt-opponents-senior-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/05\/laws-wont-be-used-to-witchhunt-opponents-senior-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws won&#8217;t be used to witchhunt opponents &#8211; Senior Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday,  4 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>peacefmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-04<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/19560886.295.jpg\" alt=\"Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo\" title=\"Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo\" width=\"295\" height=\"168\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512437902_514_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Senior Minister, Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has reiterated government&#8217;s resolve to punish persons who have used funds belonging to the state for their personal comfort, saying they will surely atone for their deeds.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, government is not in a rush to prosecute corrupt officials, especially those of the previous government, but is rather interested in ensuring that the right processes are used to identify persons who have duped the state in one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are certainly going to make people who have wronged this country through corruption suffer for their deeds, but we don\u2019t want to do this in a hurry. We must do thorough investigations; we would not do things in such a way to show that we are after our political opponents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is taking us time to do this because we want to do it in a way that people who have wronged the system are identified through thorough and the emphasis is thorough investigation, so that they answer for their crimes,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking at the launch of the 2017 National Anti-Corruption and Transparency Week in Accra today [Monday]. The programme is under the theme: \u201cNACAP: Strengthening Public, Private and Civil Society Partnership in the fight against corruption\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Minister urged Ghanaians not to panic but exercise restraint whiles government investigates in an orderly manner, acts of corruption perpetrated by ex-government officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the laws of this land, and we must use the laws of the land not to punish anybody because he\/she is an opponent but to punish people because they have wronged the system and have been corrupt to the system. So investigations are still going on-going, and I think very soon the results will be out for every Ghanaian to hear and see,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UwzBahloXAg\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 3 updated by: 3 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Monday, 4 December 2017 Source: peacefmonline.com 2017-12-04 play videoSenior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo Senior Minister, Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has reiterated government&#8217;s resolve to punish persons who have used funds belonging to the state for their personal comfort, saying they will surely atone for their deeds. 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