Mr. Alex Emmanuel Nti has said that, president Akufo Addo promised to use Anas principle to fight corruption in his administration but what has happened that we dont see any action in corruption fight.
Speaking on Plan B FMs late afternoon show EBAANOSEN, Alex Nti told Ohene Kinnah that, the President said he will deploy a number of measures including the “Anas Principle” to “unearth” the canker.
“The measures are going to be difficult but there has to be a variety of them…including what I consider the Anas ‘Principle’. Setting up highly motivated professional groups of young people who will work as if you like as it were undercover to unearth examples of corruption wherever they can find them and thereby allow the authorities to deal with the issue.
“And not only expose the corruption but you will actually deal with it in terms of sending people to court and prosecuting them and hopefully the courts will cooperate and make sure the culprits are found guilty and sanctions appropriately enforced.
He continued that, we should involve more people if we want to fight corruption and also use surveillance to tackle the canker.
Mr. Alex Nti comments was in reaction to the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwasi Amoako-Attah, saying that his ministry is replete with “thieves” and “corrupt” people, who are aiding and abetting haulage truck drivers who enter Ghana’s borders with loads that weigh way more than the standard requirement.
He complained that these truckers from neighbouring countries manage to bribe their way through with their excessively heavy loads and park along the ears of the highways, thus, destroying Ghana’s road infrastructure.
A very angry Amoako-Attah told journalists that while the truckers are afraid to overload their vehicles when entering their orn countries, they freely flout Ghana’s laws with impunity through the connivance of port, customs and police personnel.
Mr Amoako-Attah wondered how the truckers find their way into the country with excess load when there are axleload centres dotted from the Tema Port and along the highway.
“There are people in my own ministry who are involved in this kind of thing”, he complained.
“We have a number of axle load centres from here to Paga but they pass through”, Mr Amoako-Attah bemoaned.
He said those who connive with the truckers do so in exchange for bribes but philosophised that no matter how much money they make through such unethical conduct, they would, like all human beings, die and leave everything behind.
“There are a lot of corrupt people, there are a lot of thieves in my own ministry. You sack them, employ new ones and when they come the new ones are even worse than those that you sacked”, the minister added
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