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Nana Akufo-Addo\u00a0said he will deploy a number of measures including the Anas principle to unearth corruption.<\/p>

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There is growing pressure on President Akufo-Addo to act as investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ latest expos\u00e9 shows the complicity of government officials in the fight against illegal mining.<\/p>\n

A retrieved video shows then-candidate Akufo-Addo in 2012 promising\u00a0to use the investigative journalist\u2019s strategy to expose corruption if elected president.<\/p>\n

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In the\u00a0video, the President said he will\u00a0deploy a number of measures including the \u201cAnas Principle\u201d to \u201cunearth\u201d the canker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe measures are going to be difficult but there has to be a variety of them…including what I consider the Anas ‘Principle’. Setting up highly motivated professional groups of young people who will work as if you like [as it were] undercover to unearth examples of corruption wherever they can find them and thereby allow the authorities to deal with the issue.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd not only expose the corruption but you will actually deal with it in terms of sending people to court [and] prosecuting them and hopefully the courts will cooperate and make sure the culprits are found guilty and sanctions appropriately enforced. A variety of measures but the key one is the Anas Principle as well as what you do to securitise those in the tax-collecting agency,\u201d the NPP candidate told the panel.<\/p>\n