Catholic Bishops in Ghana Urges Government To Crackdown On The Black Market And Money Laundering Activities
Consequently, the Catholic Bishops in Ghana appealed to the government to adopt aggressive approach to prosecute action on the cases of misappropriation, mismanagement and actual thievery.
Freeman Koryekpor 
Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC)
has called on the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to continue to put in place effective measures and strategies to help crackdown on the black market and money laundering activities in the country.
Consequently, the Catholic Bishops in Ghana appealed to the central government to adopt aggressive approach to prosecute action on the cases of misappropriation, mismanagement, bribery, corruption and thievery.
The President-elect of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC), Reverend Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi made the foregoing call when he was addressing hundreds of the participants at the end of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference held in Donkokromq recently.
The Catholic Bishops in Ghana expressed their sadness on the current high cost of living, high inflation, youth unemployment, bribery, corruption, greedy, selfishness, lack of patriotism, poverty, poor road infrastructure networks, robbery, murder and other crimes.
The Bishops discussed the rising issues of the illegal small scale mining activities, purpolarly known as galamsey operations, weak and ineffective institutions of governance, a abandoned of unfinished government projects, the culture impunity, examination malpractices, violence, intimidation, attack on the media practitioners, human trafficking and adoptions.
According to them, these underlining challenges in addition to the current global crisis have contributed the current social economic situations, current hardships which are becoming unbearable for Ghanaians.
The men of God reviewed that Ghanaians are getting angry, frustrated, disappointed and this anger has resulted to growing phenomenon of booing at government officials, demonstration and open insults to state appointees.
They further suggested that the government to strengthen the economic fundamentals of the country through broad non-partisan stakeholder consultations through which robust economic policies must be developed and implemented.
They called on President to set an example of burden-sharing and leadership skills amidst the current economic crisis by cutting down on the size of his government Officials.
