The desperate attempt by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to smear the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) as corrupt will woefully fail according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo.

The current NPP government in less than a year in office has been hit by several allegations of corruption including two deputy chiefs of staff, who were accused of being corrupt, as well as the perceived corruption in the sale of contaminated fuel involving BOST.

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, was also accused of cronyism by the minority in one of government’s bond issue.

Another major scandal, which many were unhappy with, was the allegations of corruption leveled against Boakye Agyarko,who was also accused by some section of the minority MPs of seeking to bribe them to enable him sail through his vetting with ease.

Speaking addressing a durbur held in his honour in Koforidua while rounding up his three-day tour of the Eastern Region, President Akufo Addo said he and his appointees came to do a good job for Ghana and not to enrich themselves through corrupt activities.

“There has been a systematic effort to try and stigmatize my government with corruption, when Boakye Agyako was being vetted by Parliament he was accused of bribing people to enable him sail through. That allegation was investigated and it was found to be spurious, there was no truth whatsoever in it. Then two young men in my own office were also accused of corruption, I directed the CID to probe the matter and they were found to be clean, but our opponents said that outcome was not convincing enough so CHRAJ, whose boss was appointed by ex President John Mahama also investigated the matter and cleared the two. Again, the latest is Alan Kyeremanten was has been accused of collected monies from expatriates, when the matter was heard we found out nothing. 

“This desperate effort to stigmatize my government with corruption is not going to work. We came to do a job for Ghana and not to amass worth while the ordinary Ghanaian suffers. We came with a commitment to work and improve the living conditions of Ghanaians and that we shall certainly do.” 

Source: ghanaguardian.com