The Acting Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Ms. Anna Bossman has criticized government for not doing enough to fight corruption in the society.

Anna Bossman contends that the fight against the canker is waning because government has not shown enough commitment to prosecute persons, particularly corrupt public officials.

The CHRAJ boss was speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on the commemoration of World Day against Corruption, which fell on Sunday.

She said it is incumbent upon government to allow people, especially those in high places who are found after due process to be corrupt, to face the full rigours of the law, explaining that if those people are not shielded, it sends out the right signals to the rest of the population that corruption would not be tolerated.

“We’ve made a lot of declarations but the declarations are not enough to fight corruption. You must put your money where your mouth is and therefore if you are saying that you don’t want to have corruption in the society, all the tools that have been put at your disposition you must use. It is not enough to stand and say we are fighting corruption without doing something about it.”

The Country Coordinator of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Vitus Azeem, who was also on the programme observed that although everyone has a part to play in the fight against corruption, it is incumbent on government to lead the way.

Meanwhile former Minister for Lands and Forestry in the Rawlings administration, Madam Christine Amoako Nuamah, also a guest on the programme, has called for a national crusade for integrity that would project role models for children to emulate.

“It’s important that we project the role models who have lived a life of integrity, who have had positions and have not misused them. We need to let our children see that these are the people they should emulate, that when we say we need a change in attitude this is what we mean.”

She said society must protest the removal of Religious and Moral Education from schools’ curricula since it is one way of reaching the youth with the message of national orientation.

“Somebody pointed out to me that no, moral education is no longer part of the curricula. We need to make noise about that. I thought we have a Ministry that is supposed to be dealing with National Orientation. This ought to be a part of national orientation; that we are promoting a life of discipline, a life of integrity. We need a critical mass of people to be able to say no to bribery and corruption.”