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Criminalize professional negligence as part of fight against corruption – MP

By Laud Nartey
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Andy Appiah-Kubi

The time has come for professional negligence to be criminalized in the country, Member of Parliament for Asante-Akim North, Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi, has said.

He explained that if road contactors, for instance, fail to deliver their work to meet standard after being contracted by the state, they should be made to face criminal action.

“Another things is that we must criminalize professional negligence,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday July 23,  contributing to a discussion on the 2021 report by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ, Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime which ranked the Police to be the foremost public institution perceived to be most corrupt.

Former Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Vitus Azeem , for his part, also called for punitive punishments against corrupt officials in the country.

He said there should be proper investigations done into corruption allegations, and when the officials are found culpable, they should be jailed, with their properties confiscated.

Until that is done, he said, the fight against graft will be difficult.

“We have failed to investigate credible corruption allegation,” he said on the Key Points.

“Who wants to be jailed for corruption? Nobody. So if we are bold enough to jail people, nobody will do that,” he added.

By Laud Nartey|editors.3news.com|Ghana

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Laud Nartey is an online editor with current affair team at Media General, operators of TV3 Ghana, 3News.com and more. Email: Laud.Nartey@editors.3news.com

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