Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo has indicated government’s resolve to cause the prosecution of all corrupt public officials shortly.
According to him, all those who have wronged the country through various acts of corruption will certainly face the law.
Addressing a forum to launch this year’s national anti-corruption and transparency week in Accra, Osafo-Marfo disclosed that government is taking a bit of time to build a solid case against the wrongdoers asking the public to be patient with the state in corruption matters.
“I have a message from the president…which is we are certainly going to make people who have wronged this country through corruption suffer for their deeds. But we don’t want to do this in a hurry.”
“We have the laws of this land and we must use the laws of the land not to…punish anybody because of him or her being an opponent but because they have wronged the system. They have been corrupt in the system. So investigations are still going on and very soon…the results will be out for every Ghanaian to hear and to see,” he stated at the forum Monday.
The Senior Minister’s comments come barely a month after the special prosecutor’s bill was passed into an act of parliament.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor is the Akufo-Addo government’s vehicle to fighting corruption by public officials.
Meanwhile, Special courts are likely to be set up to prosecute corruption cases expeditiously following the passage of the Special Prosecutor law.
Chairman of Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs committee Ben Abdallah Bandah called for the setting up of the courts lately saying the administrative decision lies solely with the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo.
