Africa-Press – Ghana. Executive Secretary of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Mary Addah says it is worrying to see the two state anti-corruption agencies, the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) engage in a seeming warpath in the media.
On Monday, the Executive Director of EOCO, COP Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah on the Cecilia Dapaah cash case, said her outfit will return the docket to the Office of the Special Prosecutor, because there is no evidence for an investigation.
Then on Tuesday, Director of Strategy, Research and Communication Division at the OSP, Samuel Appiah Darko hit back saying EOCO had already returned the docket on former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah.
This development, the Madam Mary Addah says, is worrying.
“Bringing these issues into the media is not the best way to go. It’s good to work together and collaborate. It is not healthy for the fight against corruption to listen to some of these sentiments going on,’’ she stated.
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She entreated the two investigative bodies to collaborate and deal with the substance of the issue of Cecilia Dapaah and her money saga.
“There are issues around lifestyle audit that we need to pay attention to. What the people of Ghana want is these investigative bodies to be prosecuting corruption and not doing the internal wrangling,’’ the GII boss advised.
Meanwhile, Mary Addah who made a presentation at the Commonwealth Regional Conference on corruption has indicated the restrictions on funding for Civil Society Organisations is not helping them fight corruption as they wish to.
“Civil Society want to do more to fight corruption in the country. We are doing a lot. But on another score, because of the restrictions on our funding sometimes you will even want to do more. Sometimes you want to mobilise the citizens on the streets, but you do not have the resources to do so. We do not have the mandate to do investigations so you see, we are not as much as we will wish. We work within limited places because of resources,” she said.
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She was however, happy that collaboration between Civil Society and the Heads of Anti-Corruption agencies in the Commonwealth would help greatly in the fight against corruption in Africa.
Other speakers at the conference were positive that with the experiences being shared and lessons being learnt, the fight against corruption will be made easier.
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