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The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has stated that Ghana\u2019s current legal framework is insufficient to effectively combat corruption.<\/p>\n
According to Samuel Appiah Darko, Director of Strategy, Evaluation, and Communication at the OSP, the country needs stronger and more effective anti-corruption laws.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a forum in Accra on Thursday, November 14, Mr. Appiah Darko emphasized the importance of bolstering existing laws to address corruption more decisively.<\/p>\n
\u201cGhana is a country that we have so many laws, but we don\u2019t have efficient laws. For me, from the Office of the Special Prosecutor and as a lawyer, I am happy we have not passed the Conduct of Public Officers\u2019 Bill, although I am in the anti-corruption business, because as it stands now, if we pass it, it will become another white elephant.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the law as it stands now is piecemeal. Even when we talk about gifts, there is no ceiling, but we know in the UK and other places, an MP cannot take, say, a gift beyond \u00a3300. In Ghana\u2019s Conduct of Public Officers\u2019 Bill, there is no ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMPs can only vacate seats upon changing political identity \u2013 Supreme Court<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n