{"id":450734,"date":"2017-12-29T07:06:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T07:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/29\/corruption-fight-one-by-one-the-trials-will-happen-akufo-addo-2\/"},"modified":"2017-12-29T07:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T07:06:17","slug":"corruption-fight-one-by-one-the-trials-will-happen-akufo-addo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/29\/corruption-fight-one-by-one-the-trials-will-happen-akufo-addo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption fight: \u201cOne by one, the trials will happen\u201d \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 29 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-29<\/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\/32449466.295.jpg\" alt=\"Akufo Corrupt 1 1\" title=\"Akufo Corrupt 1 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"242\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The President\u2019s comments come after five former officials of the NCA were charged with corruption<\/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\/1514531177_13_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President Akufo-Addo has vowed to deal with all corrupt individuals found to have lined their pockets with state cash insisting \u201cOne by one the trials will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds:\u201dWe are all in this country, we have nowhere to go, we will see what will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Akufo-Addo has been criticized for becoming soft on issues of graft since he took over the reins of power, but has said that the government must gather enough evidence on alleged corruption cases before pressing charges.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s comments come a few days after five former officials of the National Communication Authority (NCA) were charged with various corruption-related offences.<\/p>\n<p>Former Board Chair of the NCA in the Mahama administration, Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, and four others, were charged and arraigned for willfully causing financial loss to the State contrary to section 23(1) and section 179(3)(a) of the Criminal Offences Act 1960, Act 29.<\/p>\n<p>The five persons have also been charged for 16 other offences.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo on Thursday tweeted that the trial of corrupt officials were being done to enforce the criminal laws of the country, and discounted claims that his government\u2019s corruption fight has political connotations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 38 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Friday, 29 December 2017 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2017-12-29 The President\u2019s comments come after five former officials of the NCA were charged with corruption President Akufo-Addo has vowed to deal with all corrupt individuals found to have lined their pockets with state cash insisting \u201cOne by one the trials will happen.\u201d He adds:\u201dWe are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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