NCCE’s guidelines on how to fight corruption

Hardly a day passes in Ghana, without a conversation or two about the canker corruption. It is therefore commendable for the National Commission For Civic Education, NCCE to produce guidelines through research on how corruption can be fought in Ghana. NCCE's survey on ''Public Perception on the State of Corruption, Public Accountability and Environmental Governance in Ghana comes at critical time, that government and its partners have decided to ensure that corruption is fought to the latter.

Systemic, institutional and political corruption and a perceived culture of tolerance as well as the lack of accountability and poor environmental management have become all been recognized as a drawback to Ghana's socio-economic development. That is why eliminating corruption in this nation is key and must be a concern to all.

NCCE's nationwide survey on corruption made some startling revelations. Ghanaians say men are more corrupt than women. Furthermore, more than ninety percent of Ghanaians interviewed agree that corruption is rife in the public sector .They also perceive corruption as stealing from national resources. Besides that, the mismanagement of state funds tops corruption in Ghana. These revelations cannot be described only as sad but obviously depressing. This situation definitely calls for urgent action from the powers that be to redeem Ghana from a disgraceful and dented image.

Interestingly, according to the NCCE survey most Ghanaians are aware that there are state institutions tasked with the responsibility of fighting corruption. The Ghana Police Service is one such institution, the Judiciary is also mentioned, Economic and Organized Crime Office, EOCO, as well as the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice. Sadly, there organizations are also perceived as corrupt by Ghanaians. NCCE's survey must therefore serve a wakeup call to the hierarchy of the state mandated institutions responsible for tackling corruption to ''tighten their boot straps''. Agreeably, perpetrators of corrupt acts are not sanctioned as expected in this country and therefore the act continuous unabated.

To curb corruption means the laws must work to serve as deterrence to others. This same must apply to environmental governance. Many laws have been enacted, policies formulated and international conventions ratified and if these have to be binding on Ghanaians, the responsible agencies must be empowered to be more effective and efficient. Past governments seem to have paid lip service to the quest to fight corruption. While NCCE is commended for its expose’ on Public Opinion of Corruption in Ghana, it is hoped that the recommendations are implemented to better Ghana. Above all, holding government accountable should be the responsibility of all.

To quote President Akufo Addo, ''Be citizens, not spectators.''

!!! Join the fight to curb corruption in Ghana!!!

By Rebecca Ekpe, a Journalist.



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