The Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO), Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah has advised Ghanaians to do their best to live a life worth emulation.
She has said that corruption starts from the everyday Ghanaian, so the a need for all Ghanaians to come together and put hands together to fight that evil- bedeviling act.
She recounted an incident when a woman who she didn’t know reached out to her with issues regarding payment of school fees.
According to her, she decided to give a helping hand to the woman, however, ended up rather repaying a loan for the woman instead of paying the school fees.
She stated that after agreeing to help the woman pay the fees, she called her back to tell her not to send via her number, but a different number instead.
She said the woman gave a reason for owing MTN mobile money and was never ready to pay that money as she was financially handicapped.
Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah claims despite being told not to send it to the call number of the woman, she still sent it.
“I am concerned, everybody should be concerned. What do we have to do? We must all put our hands together and we must fight whatever is fighting us. That is what I can say. The point is that, as the OSP said, if we need to fight it, then everybody must fight. I have somebody who asked me for support to pay school fees or something”, she said.
“Then the moment I said I could help, she called me back to say that I should not put it on her MoMo because she owes MTN, can you imagine? And I did. So, these are small things that we think they don’t matter, but they do. It starts from small-small things and becomes big,” she added.
She has therefore advised Ghanaians to change their attitude and put hands together to fight corruption if they wish for a better Ghana.
“So, everybody must have a change of attitude, mindset, that this is where we are and this is where we want to go. And we must all play a role in the fight against corruption. One person cannot do it. And it’s not about leadership. It’s about everybody playing a role. Whatever is expected of you, you do it, whatever is expected of me, I do it. Whatever is expected of institutions, they do it,” she said.