The National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has accused President Akufo-Addo of allowing corruption to thrive under his watch.
Referring to Ghana’s position on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in the last seven years, Mr. Gyamfi asserts that the President has failed to deal with the menace.
He claimed that former President John Dramani Mahama has outperformed the current president in the fight against corruption, citing Ghana’s CPI score under Mahama in 2014, which was 48 as against the current score of 43.
“It is glaringly clear, from Ghana’s performance under the CPI in the last seven (7) years, that the fight against corruption has been lost by the corrupt and wasteful Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/NPP government, who have institutionalized corruption and made it a thriving free for all venture. Never in the history of Ghana has any government enabled, facilitated, promoted and defended corruption like this government has done,” he stated in a social media post.
Additionally, he alleged that despite the NPP government’s promise of protecting the public purse, the President has resorted to shielding its corrupt members.
“Instead of protecting the public purse as they promised in opposition, they have brazenly desecrated the public purse, wasted meager state resources on useless ventures and shielded co-perpetrators of corruption from accountability. Instead of fighting corruption, they have turned around to fight corruption fighters with the might of the state, leading to the murder of an anti-corruption investigative journalist, Ahmed Suale, the unlawful ousting of the former Auditor General, Mr. Yao Domelevo, the resignation of the former Special Prosecutor, Martin A.B.K Amidu and the oppression of several journalists and critical voices.”
