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Ghana is losing a staggering $3 billion annually to corruption, according to the Deputy Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Rev. Richard Quayson. This amount is approximately 300% of the aid Ghana receives, highlighting the significant impact of corruption on the country’s development.
The losses are largely attributed to public procurement irregularities, where officials inflate contract prices for goods and services. To combat this, experts are calling for urgent amendments to Ghana’s anti-corruption laws to close loopholes and ensure convictions.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has made efforts to address corruption, with 33 persons currently standing trial in Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale. However, more needs to be done to strengthen institutions and ensure accountability.
As Ghana’s President of the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC), Beauty Nartey, emphasizes, “We are more concerned about fighting corruption and freeing-up resources for development than simply focusing on aid inflows”
Lawyer Fuseini echoed similar sentiments, stating that until high-profile individuals are convicted of corruption expeditiously, people will continue to think they can get away with it.
“Until high-profile people are convicted of corruption expeditiously, people will keep dreaming and thinking that they can get away with corruption,” he said.
According to him, the previous administration had normalized corruption to some extent, hence the need for harsher penalties and more effective enforcement mechanisms to deter corrupt practices.
“In the last administration, there was a certain level of normalization of corruption.”
