Anti Corruption Coalition to Prez. Mahama: Stop complaining

• Posted on October 22, 2014October 22, 2014
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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The Ghana Anti Corruption Coalition has told President John Mahama to stop lamenting over government officials found to be involved in corrupt practices and take action to punish them.

President Mahama complained about how some accountants in government agencies are frustrating government’s efforts to fight corruption in the public sector, through the implementation of the Ghana Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS).

“There are accountants in places who just don’t want to hear about GIFMIS. However much we’ve trained them, they behave like they still don’t understand the system,” frustrated President Mahama lamented.

But  the Executive Secretary of the Ghana Anti Corruption Coalition, Linda Ofori Kwafo, said the president should rather initiate processes to fire those corrupt accountants, if he does not have the power to do so directly, instead of complaining about the situation.

According to her, “the best that we [Ghanaians] expect from the President is to get information as to who is actually hindering the process” and dealing with the canker.

GIFMIS is a system introduced by government to ensure timely and reliable financial information to central government and decentralized institutions  in the country.

It was created by government to also ensure the effective  management of public funds in order to minimize acts of corruption.

The country in 2014 witnessed a number of corruption related cases, including the unlawful payment of over7 million Ghana cedis to over 20,000 non- existent National Service Personnel(NSS) though GIFMIS was existent and still operating in the country.

Another case to hit the country involved the Commissioner of Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ),Lauretta Lamptey  who spent about $200,000 on rent alone.

By: Marian Efe Ansah