News:
August 31, 2018
Member of Parliament for Wa West, Joseph Yieleh Chireh has lamented over successive government’s inability to commit resources towards fighting of corruption in Ghana.
According to the Wa West legislator it has always been a problem of governments committing resources to and question how one can be motivated to fight corruption.
He made this remarks in an interview, when ghanamps.com wanted his view on the creation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor and if its creation and subsequent appointment and Parliamentary approval of Martin Amidu has brought any benefit to the nation.
When you are elected as President within hundred days Ghanaians want to see what you have done, but in this one it is an Institution that have to follow law, it was established by law and therefore if you want quick results it could be disastrous, he lamented.
He urged government to show more commitment by giving the needed resources to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
The former Local Government and Rural Development Minister, was however not happy that with the current economic situation the country finds itself, government does not rather find the need to empower institutions that had already been created to fight corruption.
“Those of you in the media when the Bill for OSP was being pass in law we raise very critical issue, that we have Institutions that had already been established to fight corruption, at to the institution we should create we advice that it should be Public Service. So many activities are to take place that requires time and money, so if up to this point nothing is going on it what we identify early”, he lamented.
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By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com