A Supreme Court judge, Justice Yonny Kulendi has highlighted the negative effects of corruption on the country.
According to him, this canker is the “most obvious and serious threat to our democracy, our development and national security.”
These comments come after a '2021 Ghana Integrity of Public Services Survey’ conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) indicated that 26.7% public sector officials were engaged in acts of bribery, whilst 9.1% of officials from the private sector did same.
Speaking at the event where the research was out-doored, Justice Kulendi noted that the threat posed by corruption to our future is frightening.
For this reason, he stated that “we cannot afford to pretend about its prevalence in spite of some very laudable efforts at mitigating the scourge which is practically invading every facet of our lives.”
Justice Kulendi cautioned that, “if we fail to prevail in our fight against corruption, it is fast draining the public purse, it is creating barriers to economic development, decreasing effectiveness and efficiency of public services, increasing transactional cost, undermining equity and fairness in our society, making nonsense of due process and law, eroding the legitimacy of government and will ultimately bring down our democracy and upset our national security history.
"Posterity will and ought to judge us harshly if we were to bequeath such a future to our children and posterity.” he stated.
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