‘We Are Fighting Corruption Through Digitisation’– Bawumia
Bawumia said the Akufo-Addo government would work to digitise more institutions to fight corruption
Jonas Danquah 
Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says the Akufo-Addo government is using digital means to fight corruption.
Dr. Bawumia said the government had leveraged technology to eliminate corruption at a slew of state institutions such as the ports, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, the passport office, and hospitals.
“We have started automation of our hospitals and we have seen efficient and improved service deliveries at hospitals that we have implemented this. We want to make sure that we go paperless in the health sector so that you don’t have to move from one hospital to the other carrying files, or one department of a hospital to another, it will all be digital.”
“For example, Cape Coast teaching hospital is 100% paperless, Ho and KATH are 50% paperless, Korle Bu is 86% paperless. Tamale teaching hospital is starting the process of going paperless. We are making progress,” he said as quoted by the ghanareport
He said the Akufo-Addo government would work to digitise land ownership managed by the Land Commission, another institution fingered for corruption.
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The government’s commitment came under fresh scrutiny following the sudden resignation of the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, from an office that the NPP government created in fulfillment of its 2016 campaign promise.
Taking to the podium to address the 12th Nation Building series, Vice-President Dr. Bawumia ventured into the area of corruption where an Afrobarometer report suggests the government has not been doing well.
The Vice-President however insisted, the government’s commitment has been ‘the best in years’ pointing to the resourcing of anti-graft institutions such as CHRAJ, Office of the Special Prosecutor.
He said there are at least 40 officials and ex-government officials standing trial over corruption-related offenses for a collective amount of some 2.25billion cedis.
Six of them have been found guilty, he said. “We have demonstrated leadership in fight corruption,” Dr. Bawumia said.
