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As Ghana joined the rest of The World to mark United Nations International Anti-corruption Day today, December 9, 2019, the MP for Nsawan-Adoagyiri has called on the appointing authority to give jobs to only competent qualified persons.

In a statement read on the floor of Parliament to commemorate the Day, the Member of Parliament, (MP), who also doubles as the Chairman of Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, called for “the appointment of competent human resource based on merit.”

He said, as a way of reducing the ever-growing corruption in Ghana, there must be  “the establishment and strengthening of autonomous monitoring institutions backed by law” to deal with the canker.

The MP mentioned that, in October 2019, the Deputy Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) revealed that, an estimated 20% of the National Budget, “which was in fact twice the amount of annual foreign aids received, were lost through endemic and systemic acts of corruption”.

The United Nations also reports that every year, 1 trillion dollars is paid in bribes while 2.6 trillion dollars is stolen annually through corruption.

The UN Secretary General, António Guterres ahead of International Anti-Corruption Day 2019, urged all people “.. .to continue to work on innovative solutions to win the battle against corruption…” and Mr. Annoh-Dompreh made the point that Ghana is still united against corruption, following the campaign launched last year.

He discarded the notion that, corruption is high within Government establishments but admitted that “corruption is very often attributed to governmental organizations and I believe this to be because, public resources are managed by the government”.

This narrative is not far-fetched, because there have been many recorded cases of embezzlement of funds and the exploitation of resources at the government level, in different parts of the world including African countries, he added.

But the Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee was quick to stress that “this is not to say that corruption is alien to the private sector and even in homes and churches, but the government usually takes the biggest blow when people lose trust in the systems set up to protect our collective interests and this reason alone, is enough to stir on government institutions and officials to fight the hardest and set the good example for all other citizens to emulate”.

International Anti-Corruption Day has been observed annually, on December 9, since the passage of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption on October 31, 2003 to raise public awareness for anti-corruption.

Story by Edzorna Francis Mensah

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