The President who was addressing delegates at the Annual Delegates Conference of NPP members, sent a word of caution to those frustrating the establishment of the Special Prosecutor’s Office to be mindful that the office will surely be established.
“The institute for dealing with corruption in a non-partisan, objective and impartial manner; the office of the Special Prosecutor, there will be a lot of parliamentary moves to try and delay its coming into being. But I want to tell those who are interested in dealing it is that it will come.” “It will be manned by those who are capable of doing justice to the office and those who are committed to fight against corruption in the country,” he added.
The President also promised to prosecute officials of his government accused of corruption. “We are told that there is corruption in the Akufo-Addo government. Let me reassure you of one thing. Any allegation about corruption against any official member of my government will be investigated by the law enforcement agencies. And those who made that allegation better be prepared to support it when they are making these allegations of corruption because nobody is going to get away with it.”
“I am not going to preside over a government that will support corruption in our country. Every allegation of corruption that is made against any of my officials, I have given instructions to the law enforcement agencies that they should investigate each and every one of them,” he added.
Government in June withdrew the controversial Special Prosecutor Bill from Parliament. This came after the Minority in Parliament challenged the procedure in which the Bill was laid, claiming it was unconstitutional.
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Source: rainbowradioonline.com
