President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that he has not shirked from fighting against corruption and will not retreat in ensuring that people manning state anti-graft agencies acted in the interest of Ghanaians. “I don’t think that any government has mobilised resources to give opportunity for the anti-corruption agencies of the state to function […]
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Just in: Details of Saglemi Housing ‘fraud’ out
Details are emerging about how $200 million earmarked for the construction of 5,000 housing units by the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration was started and could not be completed despite huge sums paid to the contractor. The deal was approved by Parliament but by the time it was being executed, the number of housing […]
Obesity is a sign of corruption-Ugandan President declares as he swears he has never stolen from public coffers
President Yoweri Museveni led a march in efforts to stamp out corruption in public offices on Thursday. The Ugandan leader was accompanied by politicians, members of civil society organisations and religious leaders. Several people were forced to walk to work as they were caught unawares by the traffic restrictions. President Museveni pointed out that obesity […]
Fight against corruption: Gov’t scores 60%-but 55% perceives corruption to be on the rise
A new Global Corruption Barometer report on corruption in Ghana has revealed that 60% of Ghanaians surveyed said the government is doing a good job with the fight against corruption. On the other hand, 30% of Ghanaians said government is doing a bad job in the fight against corruption while 10% could not tell whether […]
Deploy BNI and CID in sting operations to arrest corrupt officials-CSOs petition President
Civil society organisations (CSOs) working in the anti-corruption space have outlined a number of new strategies to scale up the fight against corruption, including deployment of undercover security personnel to undertake operations randomly to arrest and hand over suspected corrupt officials for investigations. They are also calling for the setting up of a rapid response […]