Government Has Intensified Reforms To Fight Corruption – Deputy Attorney-General      

                                                                                              
The Deputy Attorney-General, Lawyer Alfred Tuah-Yeboah says the government has rolled out tighter measures to deal with corruption with the amendment of the Criminal Offenses Act and the passage of the Right to Information Act.

Ghana stagnated in the latest Corruption Perception Index, in which it managed to rake 43 points out of 100, just like it did in 2020.
According to Transparency International, which carried out the study, Ghana failed to progress against corruption.
But speaking in an interview on Ark in the morning monitored by Soiree News, the Deputy Attorney General Alfred Tuah Yeboah said, “subsequent governments have shown goodwill of fighting corruption and the current leadership of led by Nana Addo Danqua Akuffo Addo is poised in eliminating or reducing it drastically”. 
“With the passage of the Criminal Offenses Act 2020, Act 1034, which amends Section 239, this amendment changes the status of corruption from a misdemeanor to a felony”, he stressed.
“The government, in intensifying the reforms, has passed other legislations such as the Revenue Administration Amendment Act (Act 1029), Anti-Money Laundering Act (Act 1034), and Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Act (Act 1015),” he noted on Monday.
Mr. Tuah-Yeboah further indicated that critical processes have been digitized to facilitate transparency, efficiency, and accountability in the public sector.
“A digitized environment ultimately helps to eliminate and prevent corruption in various departments and agencies,” he added.
 He encouraged the general public to report perpetrators as laws are been implemented to protect them through the whistleblower's Act.
Meanwhile, the Programmes Manager for Ghana Integrity Initiative, Mary Adda has said, there is more to be done by the government in fighting corruption rather than relying on systems.
 According to her, the government’s overreliance on perceived systems in fighting the canker has failed over the years and should be revisited. 
But speaking on Ark in the Morning monitored by Soiree News, Mrs. Mary Adda believes fighting corruption must go beyond systems but leadership. 
She believes there should be political will but not mere lip services to eradicate the canker.
 She cited the digitalization program introduced by the government saying, “personnel put there are those to ensure the system works but this has not been the case”.