Not even my better half will persuade me not to indict degenerate authorities – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he won't be talked out of indicting degenerate open officers in spite of endeavors by a few authorities to utilize his better half to argue for their benefit.



When you are discovered liable, you will be indicted, he said to a joyful adulation by the Ghanaian people group in Sierra Leone.

"At the point when individuals become involved with the net, I am entreating 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," he expressed, including, "I am not going to tune in to that in light of the fact that my worry is Ghana and not maybe a couple people."

He, along these lines, asked Ghanaians to help him in the battle against debasement, "so we can put that Ghana behind us, and get another arrangement for our nation."

As indicated by him, the current news of the capture of a few Customs authorities in charge of the loss of some GHS1.2 billion in income to the state is a piece of the endeavors his administration 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 avoid obligation since they split the obligation with traditions authorities. It can't proceed with like that in Ghana," the President said.

"I need to guarantee you that, insofar 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 in the event that we stop the spillages, we will have the cash to do our own improvement.

"We are not going to be reliant on a few people coming to state they will give us philanthropy or stipends. We will back our own improvement ourselves," he proceeded.

The President made this known on Wednesday, when he tended to a meeting of Ghanaians occupants in Sierra Leone, as a component of his 1-day working visit to Sierra Leone.

The visit to Sierra Leone denoted the beginning of the third period of his working visits to the ECOWAS nations.

Repeating his responsibility regarding depoliticise the arraignment of defilement in Ghana, President Akufo-Addo expressed that "we will make the Office of Special Prosecutor, who won't be an animal of the administration yet will be an autonomous individual who will have the ability to choose who to indict. So it won't be Akufo-Addo, however the law is working."

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Past indictments done by the Attorney General have been described by allegations of "witch-chasing" by political adversaries.

The President guaranteed that in the following meeting of Parliament, the House will assist the setting up of the Office of Special Prosecutor and "ideally, by the second 50% of this current year, the workplace will be up and working."

"We need to hand another page over the historical backdrop of our nation. We are a rich nation. I decline 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," he said