A
Forum on Anti-Corruption and saying no to corruption has been organised at
Bechem the Tano South District Capital.
The forum which was aimed at
strengthening the Anti-Corruption capacity in the District’s community
programme had for its theme “Bringing the Services of the Commission to the
doorstep of Communities” and was organised by the Commission for Human Rights
and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).
Some
of the participants at the forum
In an opening address, the Tano
South District Director of the Commission, Mr. Owusu Bediako Appah welcomed all
gathered and commended them for attending the forum. Mr. Bediako said they have
been selected from all angles of the community to participate in the forum and
hoped they would communicate what they would learn from the forum to their
various communities. He said the forum would also afford participants to get an
indepth knowledge of the Commissions’ work.
The
Tano South District Director of the Commission, Mr. Owusu Bediako Appah welcoming
participants to the forum
A Deputy Commissioner of CHRAJ at
the headquarter of the Commission and a Resource person Mr. Richard Quaison who
took participants through the various roles the Commission plays when it comes
to Human Rights Abuse, Administrative Justice and Anti-Corruption, said the
Commission seeks to promote and protect fundamental human right and freedom
which is grouped in two broad areas namely promoting and prevention and
protecting and enforcement.
On Administrative justice, Mr.
Quaison said the Commission is responsible to investigate complaints on how
public institutions carry out their day to day executive and administrative
functions and again stressed that the Commission has the mandate to promote
integrity in the public sector, combat corruption and investigate allegations
of corruption and conflict of interest, abuse of power and misuse of funds in
the public service.
Deputy
Commissioner of CHRAJ Richard Quaison addressing the gathering
A Director of the Commission
in-charge of Anti-Corruption, Mr. Charles Ayamdo, in a presentation talked on
the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) its role, importance of NACAP
to Nation Building and how NACAP can be monitored.
Mr. Ayamdo said the plan is a ten
(10) year National Action Plan which seeks to combat corruption in Ghana and in
order to achieve its purpose NACAP has four (4) Strategic objectives namely, To
build public capacity to condemn and fight corruption and make its practice a
high risk low gain activity, To institutionalise efficiency, accountability and
transparency in the public, private and not-for profit sectors, To engage
individuals, media and civil society organisations report and combat corruption
and to conduct effective investigations and prosecution of corrupt conduct.
A
Director of CHRAJ of Anti-Corruption, Mr. Charles Ayamdo addressing the
participants
Mr. Ayamdo said it is important
that we fight corruption in Ghana since corruption is a major cause of the
provision of poor quality services and undermines or weakens institutions for
democracy and good governance. He said corruption puts basic public services
beyond the reach of those who cannot afford to pay bribes and makes it harder
to meet fundamental needs such as those for food, health and education and
retaliated that every citizen has a critical role to play in combating
corruption and the very least that is expected of every person is to “SAY NO TO
CORRUPTION”.
The presiding member of the Tano
South District Assembly, Hon. Anthony Opoku who chaired the function in his
remarks commended participants for the manner they conducted themselves and
entreated them to go back to their communities and families and propagate the
good message on Anti-Corruption and thanked the organisers and resource persons
for making the forum a great success but called for periodic ones in the near
future.
Hon.
Anthony Opoku The presiding member for Tano South District Assembly giving his
closing remarks
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