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GHANA LOSES GHS5 BILLION TO CORRUPTION IN 2021 — REPORT 2

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Talking at the send off of the report in Accra on Wednesday, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, said that in excess of a fourth of the country's grown-up populace (26.7 percent) offered incentives to a public authority in 2021.

 

Prof Annim additionally noticed that the vast majority of the pay-offs were paid at the immediate solicitation of the public authorities required, as six out of 10 pay-offs paid (59.4 percent) were straightforwardly mentioned by those authorities.

 

Discoveries from the review showed that the Ghana Police Service, Immigration Service and the custom officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) were the three top foundations that got pay-offs.

 

They were trailed by the Lands Commission, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Passport Agency authorities, and investigators, judges and justices, with chose government authorities being the least beneficiaries.

 

In his comments, Justice Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, a Justice of the Supreme Court, who represented the Chief Justice, said that debasement was the most perilous danger to the nation's majority rule government, improvement and public safety.

 

That's what he said: "Assuming we neglect to win in our battle against defilement, it is quick depleting the public satchel, making boundaries to monetary turn of events, diminishing the viability and productivity of public administrations, expanding exchange costs, sabotaging legitimate standards and disintegrating the authenticity of government and will at last cut down our vote based system."

 

Equity Kulendi noticed that the report gave irrefutable endeavor to approve the predominance of defilement in Ghana, in this manner, offer logical measures to handle debasement for advancement of custom-made enemy of defilement mediations.

 

Mr Richard Quayson, the Deputy Commissioner of CHRAJ, said that: "to battle defilement all the more actually, it is basic to work on's how society might interpret its various indications and to make ordinary, deductively based endeavors to gauge its event," which the study gave.

 

He noticed that GIPSS would uphold accomplishment of the objectives of the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP), SDG 16 and the United Nations Convention against Corruption Article 61.

 

Ms Jennifer Sarvary Bradford, a Crime Prevention and Criminal Officer at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, likewise said that the report would assist Ghana with creating a proof based strategy to battle debasement.

 

The report called for partner commitment at both the public and sub-public levels, distribution of logical reports, regulation of GIPSS, and the counter debasement execution guide to address what is happening.

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