President Nana Akufo-Addo has accused the opposition Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) of launching a smear marketing campaign in opposition to him and his authorities.
The president claims he, his household and his authorities are being unfairly focused with corruption allegations.
Based on the president, the opposition is merely making an attempt to actual revenge for corruption allegations made in opposition to the earlier authorities, led by John Mahama.
He was addressing the authorized luminary on the Annual Ghana Bar Affiliation Convention on Monday, September 9, 2024.
“I’m conscious that there’s a deliberate, politically motivated effort to painting my authorities, my household, and myself as corrupt. I believe it’s payback for the damaging allegation of corruption levelled in opposition to the Mahama administration.
“The chief of the opposition, the perennial NDC presidential candidate, continues to explain me as a ‘clearing agent.’ I have to reiterate that I can’t, underneath any circumstance, abandon the course of due course of within the struggle in opposition to corruption.
“Be that as it could, in any occasion, I’ll depart it to the judgment of the Ghanaian public to determine whether or not it’s preferable to be a ‘clearing agent’ or a authorities official one’,” he stated.
President Akufo-Addo highlighted his social gathering’s dedication to the rule of legislation, citing efforts to make sure that safety businesses function successfully and mechanisms to carry those that abuse their energy accountable.
He additionally emphasised that widespread human rights abuses of the previous don’t have any place in a democratic Ghana and that the nation has taken steps to uphold worldwide legislation and human rights.
The president additional stated his administration has taken stringent measures aimed toward eradicating corruption within the nation.
These measures, he famous, have been carried out via important upgrades within the authorized administration system, that are already producing outcomes.
“We’ve additionally taken sturdy, systemic steps to fight corruption, rooted in a holistic program of legislative, administrative, monetary and technological reforms.
“We’ve established the Workplace of the Particular Prosecutor, a essential establishment within the struggle in opposition to corruption, and we’ve offered them with the required instruments to prosecute those that search to counterpoint themselves on the expense of the Ghanaian individuals,” he added.
The president’s feedback come amid ongoing tensions between the federal government and opposition events, with each side buying and selling accusations of corruption.