Executive Director of Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Mary Awelana Addah, has expressed a grim outlook on the future, suggesting that corruption will continue to plague the country.
She highlighted the entrenched nature of corruption in society, particularly among elected politicians, and its detrimental impact on Ghana.
Mrs. Addah made these remarks during an interview on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on February 28, noting that corruption is evolving, with individuals devising new methods to exploit the system.
“Corruption is becoming a multi-faceted monster that is increasingly changing faces, and people are using all sorts of means and ways to ensure that they are benefiting from the system,” she noted.
“We were in Tamale a week ago and some of the sentiments of the youth when it comes to what’s going on, particularly around the election and the crimes that are committed thereof, it become apparent that we cannot keep quiet, we need to talk about the issue. We do not want to sit aloof to watch and then see our country into flames like others have done,“ she added.
Mrs. Addah emphasized the detachment of politicians from the escalating monetization of elections, highlighting substantial evidence indicating that crime and criminal activities fund certain members of the electorate.
She explained that the involvement in criminal activities is luring individuals into politics, with the expectation that those who benefit from politics will reciprocate to these individuals.
“We elect people into power who are sitting there not able to make decisions on our behalf. They make all the promises that when they get into power they will do a lot of good things for us, but then the reality strikes them because they have to repay people who did a lot of wrong things to get them in power.”
“So we see elements like the CDD did a survey and that survey showed that people in galamsey were funding political actors. Such persons when they support you, they want to legitimise their businesses. So when you come into power certainly you cannot do ot