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Fight against corruption is achievable – Mr Quayson

By
Emmanuel Todd, GNA

Accra, Dec 9, GNA –
Mr Richard Quayson, the Deputy Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights
and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has said progress reports received since
2015 had shown that the fight against corruption in the country was achievable.

He said after the
implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) five years
ago the number of institutions reported to have implemented their roles had
moved from 19 to about 182 by 2018 with 101 out of 135 broad activities at
various levels of implementation.

He said this in his
report during a ceremony held in Accra to commemorate the International
Anti-Corruption Day and climax the Anti-Corruption and Transparency (ACT) week.

He said awareness of
the evils of corruption and mechanism for reporting corrupt offenses which
included whistle blowing had increased.

“Most
institutions have or in the process of establishing safe corruption reporting
mechanisms at the work place,” he said.

He said all major
revenue generation institutions had gone digital reducing the opportunities of
corruption.

He said the
enforcement of the code of conduct for public officers’ asset declaration
regime, conflict of interest rule and the gift policy rolled out by the public
Service Integrity Programme, (PSIP) has intensified the fight.

He said the Judicial
Service’s Electronic Case Distribution System had been extended to all superior
and circuit courts to avert practices that encouraged corruption within the
judiciary.

He said progress had
equally been made with more institutions adopting sexual harassment policies,
introduction of Integrity Awards, enforcement of relevant laws and the rise in
investigative journalism and Media exposé.

Madam Diana
Acconcia, European Union (EU) Ambassador to Ghana said the EU was interested in
the fight against corruption in the country because corruption stifled the
growth of the nation and that the EU was equally in support with the Ghana
Beyond Aid agenda; to attract foreign investors, corruption could not be
tolerated.

She said corruption
was common to many nations and its eradication needed joint efforts of which
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted and EU and Ghana were
part.

GNA

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