I will not shield any corrupt public official – Akufo-Addo

The Leader of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has expressed unequivocally that he won't shield any open authority observed to be occupied with demonstrations of defilement or misbehavior, yet will guarantee that the traditions that must be adhered to are connected completely, without dread or support.



As indicated by President Akufo-Addo, the current news of the capture of a few Traditions authorities in charge of the loss of some GH¢1.2 billion in income to the state is a piece of the endeavors his legislature is making to square income spillages at the nation's ports.

"That cash was going, not into the administration's coffers, but rather into private pockets. We have merchants who sidestep obligation since they split the obligation with traditions authorities. It can't proceed with like that in Ghana," the President said.

He proceeded with, "I need to guarantee you that, inasmuch as I have the open door, and I have breath and power, I will make a move, so we can stop the spillages. I realize that on the off chance that we stop the spillages, we will have the cash to do our own improvement. We are not going to be subject to a few people coming to state they will give us philanthropy or gifts. We will back our own improvement ourselves."

President Akufo-Addo made this known on Wednesday, 24th May, 2017, when he tended to a meeting of Ghanaians inhabitant in Sierra Leone, as a component of his 1-day working visit to Sierra Leone, denoting the initiation of the third period of his working visits to the ECOWAS nations.

The President focused on that "when individuals become involved with the net, I am begging individuals not to come to me and say that 'Gracious! Nana, this man is my relative, so extra him'. That is the issue in Ghana. You discover individuals going to address your better half with the expectation of attempting to impact you. I am not going to tune in to that, on the grounds that my worry is Ghana and not maybe a couple people."

He, in this way, asked Ghanaians to help him in the battle against debasement, "with the goal that we can put that Ghana behind us, and get another arrangement for our nation."

Repeating his responsibility regarding depoliticise the arraignment of defilement in Ghana, as indictments completed by the Lawyer General are depicted as "witch-chasing" by adversaries, President Akufo-Addo expressed that "we will make the Workplace of Unique Prosecutor, who won't be an animal of the legislature, yet will be an autonomous individual who will have the ability to choose who to arraign. So it won't be Akufo-Addo, however the law is working."

In the following meeting of Parliament, the President expressed that the enactment setting up the Workplace of Unique Prosecutor will be laid before the House, and "ideally, by the second 50% of this current year, the workplace will be up and working."

Taking everything into account, President Akufo-Addo expressed that "we need to hand another page over the historical backdrop of our nation. We are a rich nation. I reject this thought Ghana is poor. I won't acknowledge the dialect that Ghana is poor. Ghana is not a poor nation. Ghana is a rich nation, and we need to make it a rich nation by and by in our time. We as a whole need to endeavor to understand the abundance of our nation."