Corruption: Have you worked with angels? – Haruna Iddrisu asks Akufo-Addo

General News on Wednesday, June 5th, 2019

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2019-06-05

Haruna Iddrisu, a minority leader in Parliament, expressed surprise at President Akufo-Addo's remarks about the prosecution of certain appointees under the Mahama administration.

"I have heard the President speak away from Canada or somewhere during his many travels abroad, claiming that people from the NDC had been indicted ….", He said declared.

After several months of scrutiny and undermined by some stakeholders in the country, special prosecutor Martin Amidu has filed charges against allegedly corrupt individuals following the leak of a list of officials from his team.

Despite the denial of the validity of the list, the staff of his department responsible for the release was dismissed.

In a speech by President Akufo-Addo on the fight against corruption during a visit to Canada, he revealed that 21 former leaders of the NDC-led opposition government had been charged. He badured Ghanaians living in Canada that his administration was about to fight corruption and that it followed due process.

"People say that there is no prosecution. Twenty-one people are currently being tried in Ghana for corruption. What does corruption mean? The simple word for corruption is stealing, it's stealing, and there are people who are on trial right now.

"One of the things I'm not willing to do under any conditions is to remove the principle of due process. All my life in Ghana, I fought for a state in Ghana that recognizes, accepts and recognizes the respect of the law, as a fundamental instrument of state policy, "he said. note.

But the Tamale South MP and former Minister of Employment and Labor Relations under the Mahama government expressed dissatisfaction with the president's statement suggesting his position was "laughable".

"What a significant and interesting statement from the President of the Republic. So, that means he's been working with angels for three years … "laughed Mr. Iddrisu.

In the meantime, some appointees to the existing NPP administration have been corrupted, but have been cleared through investigations or have not yet been investigated.

Sectors such as the Ministry of Communication, Health, Tourism, among others, have all been mentioned at some point in the last three years.

Mr. Haruna Iddrisu spoke to a section of the media after escorting a member of parliament for Bawku Central Mahama Ayariga following a court summons for prosecution by the Special Prosecutor's Office. .