Co-chair of the Citizens Movement Against Corruption, Edem Senanu says that there is a need for a regulatory mechanism to combat corruption.

According to him, sustainable crime prevention requires the institutionalisation of such a mechanism.

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Speaking on JoyNews AM show, Mr Senanu said that, “For example, when we talk about mystery shopping, undercover agents... we ought to have a system that continuously does this; we should not take a JoyNews investigation to come back to this issue. It is not a once in a blue moon incidence of we do an investigation and find people culpable and we go to sleep that would not work. “

Mr Senanu suggested that a dedicated unit within the police Service should continuously take responsibility for combating corruption rather than conducting occasional investigations and punishments.

The co-chair of the Citizens Movement Against Corruption also stated that training staff provides a more compelling basis to sustain anti-corruption efforts.

“Because if you are using technology, for example, the drones quietly observing and collecting data, the fact that these drones can go around randomly. The fact that they would have a system in place to use the current institutional rules in terms of what staff can do and not do. To sanction and to let go of persons who are not as it were promoting the best interest of the nation. I think that would be a much more sustainable thing”.