In response to the Office of the Special Prosecutor's half-year report for 2023, Murtala Mohammed, a member of parliament for Tamale Central, and Yves Hanson-Nortey, a member of parliament for Tema Central, made the call.
The MPs said that corruption was present in every aspect of Ghanaian society during conversations that were recorded by the Ghana News Agency and carried out on a local television station in Accra on Saturday.
However, they claimed that the situation was more severe among political elites, and that if it was not addressed directly, it would continue to impede efforts to improve citizens' lives.
Mr. Mohammed stated, "The only means for a journalist, clergyman, civil servant, or public servant to be corrupt and take from the State is through a channel, which is created by a political appointee."
"As legislators, we should concede that defilement is a concern, however the greatest of everything is the debasement inside the political tip top, and in the event that we don't battle it we'll stay here and cry consistently," he added.
Alluding to the gathering of abundance, he said: " You have lawmakers in this country who in the span of four years, whether under whichever government, assemble the most costly houses and lodgings and no one says anything."
He urged religious leaders to support civil society and government efforts to combat corruption by doing more: It ought to be included in their sermons. Municipal obligations should likewise be typified in our instructive educational plan."
Mr. Hanson-Nortey, on the other hand, stated that the cost of running for political office in Ghana was directly related to all of the schemes of corruption that the nation had witnessed over the course of the previous 20 or 30 years.
He stated that competing in the general election was more expensive than competing in the primaries.
Therefore, you would need to recoup approximately $500 million over the course of approximately four years. Businesspeople frequently back politicians in the hope that if you become president, you will award them contracts to recoup their funding.
The Tema Central MP stated, "Let's put in measures that would ensure political funding and hold politicians to account for where their monies come from."
Teacher Enoch Opoku Antwi, a Public Strategy Expert, said there was a great deal of "squander in our framework" devastating the economy
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"All the waste we're seeing is going into individual pockets, and except if we address debasement, we won't ever tackle our concerns," he said, and added that "we should make our regulations work".
According to the OSP's half-year report for 2023, four cases had been resolved and were currently before the court, and four additional cases' investigations had concluded.
In addition, the OSP reported that it was looking into nine cases of suspected corruption and crimes related to corruption, as well as 150 other cases that were being considered at various levels.
In the meantime, Mr. Kissi Agyebeng, the Special Prosecutor, called for an adequate budget line for the Office, saying, We keep stressing how important it is for the state to pay special attention to the Office's funding requirements.
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