Former President John Mahama has indicated that his administration will impartially address corruption allegations if he is elected as the next president in the upcoming December presidential and parliamenatry elections.
The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) said he would not shield any culprits from investigation, including his own appointees.
This was in response to a question he was asked about whether he has been exorcised from ‘father-for-all’ syndrome, which people claimed prevented him and his predecessor, the late John Evans Atta Mills, from prosecuting cases of corruption.
“I can assure you, if you believe that I was imbued the father-for-all syndrome, it’s been exorcised. And it’s been exorcised because it is a demand by the people of Ghana.”
“The people of Ghana are asking for accountability and we must create a situation where everybody who agrees to serve must know that he will be held accountable to the people,” he said.
He refereneced some measures he adopted under his administration which he said helped to recover funds from state agencies.
“We retrieved monies from state agencies, so the track record is there,” he asserted.
Using the GYEEDA (Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency) report as example, he said: “Some of the people involved [in GYEEDA case] went to court to restrain the Attorney General and the court processes took forever. There were others where there was the prosecution of my own colleague and friend, Abuga Pele. The Attorney General put him before courts and he was jailed. It was recently that President Akufo-Addo granted him amnesty,” he added.
“So the will to fight corruption was there,” Mahama stated, highlighting the need for transparency and accountability in government.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
