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An anti-corruption campaigner with the African Parliamentary Network against Corruption has kicked against calls for a Commission of Enquiry into the alleged rot at the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA).
Daniel Batidam says the country should not incur any further cost in retrieving monies illegally paid to persons cited for wrong doing by a committee set up to investigate allegations of corruption at GYEEDA.
Even though government is yet to publish content of the Committee's report, an intercepted copy by Joy News revealed some jaw breaking revelations.
2.3 million dollars of the tax payer’s money was said to have been paid to a company for no work done.
RLG and Zoomlion, two major beneficiaries in the GYEEDA modules were said to have been over paid in excess of 200 million cedis.
Six officials of GYEEDA have been recommended for prosecution whilst three high profile individuals- the former Youth and Sports Minister, Kofi Humado, former GYEEDA boss Abuga Pele and the Chief Director at the Ministry Alhaji Abdulai Yakubu- are said to have questions to answer for shady contracts signed and entered into with service providers.
The extent of corruption found by the committee members has sent many tongues wagging with diverse opinions on how to battle the canker.
Government has stated its preparedness to publish the report and take action against persons named in the report but will not be stampeded into releasing it.
Whilst it contemplates on the line of action to take, the opposition New Patriotic Party members in Parliament say a Commission of Enquiry is the best way to go.
A minority member on the special budget committee of parliament Frank Annor Dompreh told Joy News, if the Commission of Enquiry is impossible to have, then the Parliament's Accounts Committee must be tasked to investigate the matter.
He said merely because a ministry in Mahama's government has constituted an investigation into the rot at GYEEDA is no guarantee that there will be no "cover ups."
Dompreh said the extent of rot at GYEEDA needed a thorough investigation which a commission of enquiry is sure to provide.
But Daniel Bartidam thinks otherwise.
He told Joy News, Ghana's history is replete with Commissions of Enquiry which have achieved little or no result.
He posited that government needs not incur extra cost by setting up another Commission of Enquiry before it can retrieve illegal monies paid to service providers and also to punish alleged corrupt officials.
He would rather the government publishes the findings of the committee report, so that the persons cited for corruption would be made to answer for it.
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