Institutions responsible for fighting corruption must deal with corrupt people to sanitise the system, the Most Reverend Dr. Paul Kwabena Boafo, Presiding Bishop of The Methodist Church, Ghana, has said.
He said financial irregularities and rot uncovered by the Auditor General annually should be a matter of concern for the country.
He said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency.
Most Rev. Dr. Boafo noted that the financial irregularities kept occurring because the institutions were failing to punish persons implicated in the Auditor General’s Report.
“The institutions that should be dealing with corruption and to do the checks, for the Auditor General coming out with these figures, they know where all these leakages are.
“…So the institutions to deal with the people should deal with them and make sure that it doesn’t reoccur,” he said.
He urged the Government to empower and resource anti-corruption institutions to effectively discharge their mandate and block the leakages in the system.
A report released by the Auditor General’s Department in August last year indicated that Ghana lost over ¢12.8 billion due to infractions and other irregularities committed by statutory institutions in the year 2020.
Some of the infractions include contract irregularities, tax irregularities, procurement irregularities, payroll irregularities, cash irregularities, and challenges retrieving loans from debtors among others.
