Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Joseph Whittal, has advised the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng to make use of the limited resources he has been given.
He gave him the advice following claims by the Special Prosecutor that his resources allocated to him was woefully inadequate.
Mr. Agyebeng had said “without money, we can’t do anything. We will be reduced to writing long letters without any force because we need money for everything, especially our operations. And the question as to whether what was allotted to the OSP is sufficient, I will say generally in Ghana nothing is sufficient”.
The office of the Special Prosecutor has been allocated GH¢194,920,000 in the 2022 budget.
But the CHRAJ boss said “It is not the money alone that can fight corruption. You cannot expect to start work with a bank.”
The CHRAJ boss who was speaking at the second edition of the Ghana Integrity Initiative Awards held in Accra on December 9, 2021, said: “the fight against corruption must begin from somewhere and not necessarily with money”.
He added “if you start with a ten-storey building as the OSP has got now, and you’re given GH¢40 million to start, [just] start”.
“The OSP should start and more will be added. You cannot expect to start with a bank. Every institution started gradually and made it,” he added.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
