The Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini has declared his support for the prosecution of officials suspected to have committed corrupt acts while serving in the Mahama administration.
This comes a day after Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Kpemeka indicated that officials suspected of corrupt acts in previous administration will soon be put before court.
“Some of these persons who have been daring us on TV or radio have questions to answer in court,” Mr. Kpemka revealed.
Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Fuseini supported this call saying, “If you are in public office and you misconducted yourself in public office which is bordering on corruption or any other matter, you should be prepared to answer for it.
If they [NPP government] come to the conclusion that the person is found culpable then that person must pay a price for it.”
He was however quick to remind the NPP government to abide by the laws in prosecuting these officials.
“The legal ethics particularly binding on lawyers of the court requires that when they are preparing their cases for court, they go to court before they speak so I am just saying that the ethics of the profession requires that you go to court, prosecute the persons you feel are corrupt…They [corrupt officials] also have the opportunity because the constitution guarantees them some rights.
The sanction regime is defined by law and so whatever sanctions should be imposed, will be imposed by law,” he said.
Mr. Inusah indicated that Mr. Kpemka’s threats to prosecute corrupt NDC officials do not come as a surprise to him since other appointees had earlier indicated that “they are preparing dockets for the prosecution of former government officials who misconducted themselves.”
The Mahama administration was rocked with a number of corruption cases including the GHC3.2 million bus branding, GYEEDA and the Subah scandals.
The then opposition NPP, promised the creation of the Special Prosecutor Office which would deal with the various corruption cases.
Government is expected to begin the prosecution of corrupt officials in the Mahama administration in October.
Mr. Kpemka who made this revelation on Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News on Thursday said: “…By October when we start moving to court with some of the cases, Ghanaians will know that we are serious and we are ready to fight corruption as a canker in this country and uproot it once and for all.
Source: citifmonline.com
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if any member of the ndc is taken to court, I will urge the foot soldiers to stay away from the courts and allow the courts to do their work. if it is true that these people are corrupt, their corruption affects the ordinary people more than anyone else. if this happens and ndc comes to power they can also audit the npp government and so on and so forth to give reprieve to the long suffering Ghanaians at the hands of corrupt officials. i pray that the npp initiative is successful.
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We are tired of your ***barred word*** talkings! Who stops you NPP to prosecute corrupt NDC officials? The talking is too much. I wonder why NPP government like talking like that without any action. By the way, this is not the first time we are hearing all these noises from NPP. Go ahead and prosecute them and stop all these urgly noises! NDC officials have many times dared the government to prosecute them so I don't see why the government is making all these ***barred word*** noises. We want actions not empty talking! You people talk too much! Period!
We will start with you for the ghost road contracts you supervised and paid for......