Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman, running mate to the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has asserted that corruption is rampant in too many government and non-government institutions
She bemoaned the fact that institutions meant to check on corruption have been significantly weakened.
Speaking at the University of Professional Studies (UPSA) on Wednesday , Prof Naana Opoku Agyeman gave the assurance that her party will strengthen the institutions meant to fight corruption when it assumes office in 2025 .
“It is our duty to ensure that our sources of wealth are not given away to obscure entities shrouded in opaque deals. We must not arrive at a destination where our national assets and natural resources are treated by some as if they were assets of their own creation, to be willed forever to relatives and friends”
“We must be passionate about justice, about the protection of our environment, about protecting our differently-abled citizens. We must be passionate about institutions that are responsive to our collective needs. We must be passionate about stamping out corruption,”
“Let no one tell us otherwise, not even those who have so alienated themselves from reality as to be impervious to the truth—the truth of women delivering on the floor, of children waiting for a benevolent person to advance much-needed vaccines, of young children learning in dangerous circumstances; of teachers threatened and parents intimidated from their core functions of caring for their own children; of those who can no longer afford healthy and once generally affordable meals euphemistically called “face the wall” and “kofi broke man”, or of elderly citizens who must picket for their own money. What is that?”, she quizzed.
Ghana | Atinkaonline.com | Vivian Adu