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I won't protect corrupt officials - Nana Addo
Nana Addo said officials engaged in acts of corruption will face the laws of the land without fear or favour
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He said officials engaged in acts of corruption will face the laws of the land without fear or favour.
According to him, the recent news of the arrest of some Customs officials responsible for the loss of some GH¢1.2 billion in revenue to the state is part of the efforts his government is making to block revenue leakages at the country's ports.
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Addressing Ghanaians in Sierra Leone, as part of his one-day working visit to Sierra Leone, he said "That money was going, not into the government’s coffers, but into private pockets. We have importers who evade duty because they split the duty with customs officials. It cannot continue like that in Ghana."
He added: "I want to assure you that, so long as I have the opportunity, and I have breath and power, I am going to do something about it, so we can stop the leakages. I know that if we stop the leakages, we will have the money to do our own development. We are not going to be dependent on some people coming to say they are going to give us charity or grants. We will finance our own development ourselves."
Nana Addo indicated that "when people get caught up in the net, I am imploring people not to come to me and say that ‘Oh! Nana, this man is my relative, so spare him’. That is the problem in Ghana. You find people going to speak to your wife with the hope of trying to influence you. I am not going to listen to that, because my concern is Ghana and not one or two individuals."
He urged Ghanaians to help him in the fight against corruption, "so that we can put that Ghana behind us, and get a new deal for our country."
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Reiterating his commitment to depoliticise the prosecution of corruption in Ghana, as prosecutions carried out by the Attorney General are described as "witch-hunting" by opponents, President Akufo-Addo stated that "we are going to create the Office of Special Prosecutor, who will not be a creature of the government, but will be an independent person who will have the power to decide who to prosecute. So it will not be Akufo-Addo, but it is the law that is working."
In the next meeting of Parliament, he stated that the legislation setting up the Office of Special Prosecutor will be laid before the House, and "hopefully, by the second half of this year, the office will be up and working."
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