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Speaker of Parliament, Rtd Hon Alban Bagbin, has applauded President of Angola João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço for his commitment to the fight against corruption.
He stated that the huge savings of over US$5 billion that the Angolan administration has made a little over three years by retrieving the ill-gotten wealth of corrupt individuals are remarkable.
Fighting corruption, he said, is about vigorously pursuing the nation’s resources and noted such outcomes represent yet another major source of funds for the running of every economy.
The Speaker gave the commendation when he commented on the address that the H.E. João Lourenço delivered to Parliament on Tuesday 3rd August 2021 as part of his official state visit to Ghana.
Ghana’s Parliament, he said, is encouraged to continue with the pursuit of its watchdog role to give constructive criticism to government agencies and to call on them to account to the people.
He expressed hope Ghana and Angola will remain committed to deeper democratic ideas and working in furtherance of the prosperity of the two countries.
Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, in his remarks stated that Ghana was among the first countries to accord recognition to Angola and established a diplomatic mission in December 1976 after it attained independence from Portugal in 1975.
Angola, he said, subsequently reciprocated this in 2005 when it also established a mission in Accra after the end of the civil war and returned to peace and stability.
According to him, over the years bilateral relations between the two states have seen a number of senior government officials from both countries visiting each other.
This, he said, has presented an opportunity to further strengthen the economic ties between the two countries and open other areas of cooperation for the mutual benefit of their citizens.
Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, applauded President João Lourenço for not paying lip service to corruption and going all out to recover looted resources back to the Angolan state.
Angola and Ghana, he said, shared a common history on the path to democratic rule with the former emerging from civil war and the latter from military rule.
He urged the Minister for Foreign Affairs to continue with the good work she is pursuing on Ghana’s foreign policy.
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