Government has urged the former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Professor Emmanuel Martey, to provide evidence of persons within Akufo-Addo administration who are corrupt.
Professor Martey at a lecture in the Ashanti Region last week stated that, some officials of the Akufo-Addo government, are already exhibiting signs of corruption and cautioned against such acts.
The man, who blatantly criticized officials of the erstwhile Mahama administration for being corrupt and having mismanaged the country, appears to be turning the heat on the Akufo-Addo administration.
He cited the large size of the government, and called for a review, stating that it could lead to corruption. He cited the recent happenings at the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), and urged the President to ensure issues about corruption under his administration are dealt with.
But the government wants him to name the individuals who are alleged to be engaged in the corrupt practices to enable it to take action against such individuals.
According to the Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, the government is committed to rooting out corruption especially among state officials, and appreciates information from the public to help it take action.
He, however said such information must be based on specifics and should not be generalized.
“As a senior citizen of our country, we want to urge him to go beyond talking generalities to giving us concrete examples that we can put our hands on and make an example for people to be deterred. But if senior citizens should begin talking like that, that in our view is quite nebulous and feeds into the perception,” he said.
“We welcome such comments, they are not comments that we want to attack or rebut, but we want to encourage senior citizens like that to speak up, but to speak more on specifics rather than generalities,” he added.
President Nana Akufo-Addo was criticized for appointing 110 ministers to serve in his government, after previously assuring that he would ensure a prudent and efficient government.
The size of Akufo-Addo’s government is considered one of the biggest in the country’s history.
The President said he created a number of special portfolios to serve at the Presidency because certain critical sectors needed “additional talents” to ensure their success.
He also responded to critics of his government size saying that the task of turning around Ghana’s fortunes requited a large government to rise up to the many challenges.
Perceived corrupt cases under NPP
The NPP government has so far found itself in two cases of alleged corruption, with the recent one being the allegations of corruption against two deputy chiefs of staff, by musician and NPP sympathizer Kwame A-Plus, as well as the perceived corruption in the sale of contaminated fuel involving BOST.
There has also been perceived corruption in government’s handling of the Ameri Power Deal, in which the same firm that was being questioned over a supposed bloated contract, sponsored a committee from Ghana to Dubai to hold discussions with them.
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, was also accused of cronyism by the minority in one of government’s bond issue. Another major scandal, which many were unhappy with, was the allegations of corruption leveled against Boakye Agyarko, now Energy Minister during his vetting.
He was accused by some minority MPs of seeking to bribe them to enable him sail through his vetting with ease. The matter was later investigated by parliament, but the accusers were supposedly unable to prove their claims.
Source: citifmonline.com
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This is not a matter that merits attacking Prof. Martey, Drooche. He specifically said signs of corruption and demonstrate what he means by giving examples. What is Mustapha Hamid talking about?. To me it does add up. If you have been polite enough to provide reasons for what the Prof. means by signs of corruption, let it end there. Sometimes you are better off, keeping quiet and working on your shortfalls than to portray yourself as a superman and firmly in control of any potential mishap. I will not mince words by saying that the best thing that can happen to this NPP government is to have Professors who are bold to ring the alarm bells early enough. As a party it will be best for us to ***barred word*** and work to reverse any perceived corrupt officials than asking the professor to mention names. What a cheap response? Parties will always go and come because they easily and cheaply make the same mistakes. Ghana as a nation should stand up to tackle the problem of how to FINANCE OUR POLITICAL PARTIES" For some top rich guys, sees it as an INVESTMENT AND THE INVESTOR MUST BE RESPECTED AND PAID. SIMPLICITER. Else Mr. Professor, all you will do is what you are doing, at least TALK.
This NPP idiotic maggot Hamid is just being silly totally naive politically ; how can you ask such cheap and easy question; besides was the NPP including Hamid able to prove corruption in the JOn Mahama government -NO ; is the full not aware that the concept of corruption is subjective and in many cases very difficult to prove ; it is the perception element that has being the achilles heels of both parties ; the preception of corruption is more toxic than even naming names because eventually when that perception of corruption stick you are DOOMED !!!!!!; it happened to K4 and and JOn Mahama and the NDC ; if this idiotic full Hamid does not ask the right questions but sticks to these stooooopid question of evidence he will find the evidence in 2020.
NPP AS A PARTY AND GOVT SHOULD SHOULD BEND DOWN THEIR HEADS IN SHAME FOR TELLING PROF.MARTEY TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE. WHAT EVIDENCE DID YOU PROVIDE WHEN YOU WERE CRIS CROSSING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY SINGING ABOUT CORRUPTION IN NDC GOVT. YOU SHOULD KNOW PERCEPTION ABOUT CORRUPTION IN GOVT DOE NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY CORRUPT AND YOU SHOULD AS A GOVT BE BOLD AND COME OUT TO APOLOGIZE TO JOHN MAHAMA ABOUT THE CORRUPTION TAG YOU GAVE WHEN YOU DID NOT PROVIDE GHANAIANS WITH ANY EVIDENCE. TIME WILL TELL. I THINK MANY GHANAIANS SHOULD BE GNASHING THEIR TOOTH FOR BUYING INTO YOUR WELL CALCULATED LIES. YOU CAN DENY BUT THE GOSPEL TRUTH IS THAT IN JUST NINE MONTHS IN POWER SOME OF YOUR APPOINTEES ARE BUILDING MANSIONS. HOW DID THEY COME BY THOSE MONIES. HYPOCRITES.
So, NPP has forgotten how easy it is go into opposition eh? Okay. Continue asking for evidence and take Ghanaians for granted like NDC did.
NPP must learn from NDC's mistakes, or else, it will go where it does not want to. Martey is not against NPP, he is speaking on behalf of some of us who DO NOT want NDC to come to power
If NPP govt does not want to find itself in opposition sooner than later, it should continue talking like this Hamid boy who seems to have forgotten that he was in opposion a year ago.
is not all that important to ask for evidence but rather as government, you take your time to find out the truth.
So per the the cases of what you have stated, that is the definition of corruption, then the whole country is corrupt including pastors, chiefs and everybody. So in case that happened in the country and one does not understand means corruption. Oh Ghanaians why.
Martey himself is corrupt. If he has the evidence why does he not share it so the corrupt officers will be dealt with and rooted out.
@ Abban - Mtcheeew! Are they NDC members? You wanted NPP to do NDC's job for them. Lazy party!!