{"id":764958,"date":"2019-12-14T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/14\/i-am-not-corrupt-allegations-under-my-watch-following-due-process\/"},"modified":"2019-12-14T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:01:02","slug":"i-am-not-corrupt-allegations-under-my-watch-following-due-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/14\/i-am-not-corrupt-allegations-under-my-watch-following-due-process\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not corrupt, allegations under my watch following due process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 14 December 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2019-12-14<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/71999674.295.jpg\" alt=\"President Nana Akufo-Addo\" title=\"President Nana Akufo-Addo\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Nana Akufo-Addo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">President Akufo-Addo has ridiculed the general assertion that corruption is still dominant among his appointees and within his government.<\/p>\n<p>According to the president, no allegation of corruption against any member of his government has gone un-investigated, hence the accusation of him supervising a corrupt administration is false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not corrupt and I will never be corrupt. For these accusations that have been made against some of my appointees, none has been ignored. In fact, all have been investigated. For some people, the allegations are enough to convict people but I don\u2019t believe that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllegations are supposed to be investigated. It\u2019s either they are investigated by the police or whatever other institution and at the same time in the court, but they have to be tried. In the process of trying people, people are entitled to make applications to test this or that and all of these things delay cases. But for me, it is a better system. The thing about due process is that, it is only when you are in trouble that you appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Transparency International (TI) in January this year, ranked Ghana 78 out of 180 countries on the 2018 global Corruption Perception Index (CPI). According to the report, Ghana scored 41 out of a possible clean score of 100, with the score showing that Ghana\u2019s performance had improved by one point from its 2017 score of 40.<\/p>\n<p>While several factors including policies and initiatives by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been alleged to account for this improvement, some Ghanaians maintain government is losing the fight of corruption on the ground.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>But addressing the media at the Jubilee House on Friday, President Akufo-Addo said while Ghanaians may be bothered about the slow pace with which corrupt acts are dealt with in the country, the fight is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it was not only members of his government who are being investigated over corrupt charges but members of the erstwhile administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are unfortunately twenty-five person involved in the last administration who are on trial for various acts of financial misappropriation, corruption etc who are on trial not about to be, but already on trial and the amounts of money involved collectively in those trials, a hundred and thirty million dollars and some two hundred and eighty seven million cedis, and when we put them together in today\u2019s figures it\u2019s over a billion cedis. So it\u2019s not as if nothing is happening, when you read about it, you will know a process is being followed. We want to do it within the context of the process. For me, it is extremely important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The media encounter, the third since his assumption of power gave President Akufo-Addo the opportunity to answer questions from journalists in the areas of the economy, governance, health, education, security among others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/96566925.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">For more news, go to <b>myjoyonline.com<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong><br \/>This article has no comments yet, be the first to comment\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 14 December 2019 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2019-12-14 President Nana Akufo-Addo President Akufo-Addo has ridiculed the general assertion that corruption is still dominant among his appointees and within his government. According to the president, no allegation of corruption against any member of his government has gone un-investigated, hence the accusation of him supervising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764958","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I am not corrupt, allegations under my watch following due process - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/14\/i-am-not-corrupt-allegations-under-my-watch-following-due-process\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I am not corrupt, allegations under my watch following due process - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Saturday, 14 December 2019 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2019-12-14 President Nana Akufo-Addo President Akufo-Addo has ridiculed the general assertion that corruption is still dominant among his appointees and within his government. 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