{"id":1815,"date":"2019-08-23T12:32:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2019-08-23T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:32:19","slug":"corruption-ndc-and-npp-are-in-the-same-basket-gii-programs-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/corruption-ndc-and-npp-are-in-the-same-basket-gii-programs-director","title":{"rendered":"Corruption : NDC and NPP are in the same basket \u2013 GII programs Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) Programs Director,Mrs Mary Awelana Addah believes \u00a0the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition Democratic Congress (NDC) have \u00a0both done little in terms \u00a0of fighting corruption while in office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will put both NPP and NDC in the same basket .None of them is doing better than other\u201d, she observed when she spoke on \u2018Kumasi FM\u2019s morning show hosted by Nana Yaw Mensah Joel monitored by Africa-press.com\/ghana\/.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, though it is her observation and not backed by evidence, from where she sits as Programs Director, both past and present governments are not doing enough to get rid of the corruption canker that has bedeviled the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough GII has not conducted any research on that. This my personal opinion and I am convinced that NPP and NDC are same in terms of corruption\u201d, she stressed while speaking to the recent expos\u00e9 \u2018Contracts for Sale\u2019 by investigate journalist, Manasseh Azuri Awuni.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile GII has officially commended President Nana Akufo-Addo for his swift decision to suspend the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Adjenim Boateng Adjei, following allegations of corruption against him in an investigative documentary put together by former Investigative Journalist with Multimedia.<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary, Mr. Boateng was accused of establishing a company called Talent Discovery Limited, which won some government contracts through restrictive tendering and subsequently selling the contracts to individuals and other institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director for GII, Linda Ofori-Kwafo on Eyewitness News described Mr. Adjei\u2019s actions as appalling and disgraceful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must say from GII\u2019s point of view, the documentary brings to the fore so many issues that actually require further investigations and they may be sanctions taken. The alleged actions of the PPA boss are appalling and disgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must also commend the President for the action taken so far in terms of asking the PPA boss to step aside and also asking CHRAJ and OSP to conduct further investigations into the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) Programs Director,Mrs Mary Awelana Addah believes \u00a0the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition Democratic Congress (NDC) have \u00a0both done little in terms \u00a0of fighting corruption while in office. \u201cI will put both NPP and NDC in the same basket .None of them is doing better than other\u201d, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[1124,716,1123],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-mrs-mary-awelana-addah","tag-new-patriotic-party-npp","tag-the-ghana-integrity-initiative-gii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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