NCCE ‘Fights’ Corruption

The National Commission for Civil Education (NCCE) has ended a days’ engagement with residence in the Ashieduketeke Sub-Metro in Accra.

The event intended to further extend the frontiers in the fight against corruption was attended by among others Chiefs, vocational training groups, students and officials of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO).

Godfred Ebo Arhim, Head of Investigation at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) said the citizens’ involvement in the corruption fight key in tacking the canker.

He said the framers of the 1992 constitution per Article 35 (8) gave a space for issues of corruption indicative of the fact that the issue was important to the country.

Mr.  Arhim who was speaking on the topic “whistle Blowing as a Mechanism for Fighting Corruption” stated among others that acts including land degradation, under/over invoicing, money laundering, miscarriage of justice constitute corruption.

The CHRAJ Head of Investigation for this reason urged the citizens to report such acts because the Whistle Blowers Act protects informants against victimization.

A former Director of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), George Aryee also the Chief of Ngleshie Alata and Chairman for the event said Ghanaians could no longer play the ostrich over issues of corruption in the country.

He said Ghana was becoming a society where the citizens say one thing and do the other contrary to what pertains in the advanced world.

Rexford Mensah Bonsu, a Senior Civic Education Officer, NCCE said the event is in fulfilment of the Commission’s Constitutional mandate.

He stated that the event is aimed at educating the public on their duties and responsibilities on the issue of corruption who would also in turn impart the knowledge acquired to other members of society.

 

Story By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson