Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has berated the government for kowtowing to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to enact Public Officers Act.
The group says its disappointment has to do with the government’s initial unwillingness for the enactment after they demanded same.
According to them, they pressured the government to pass the Act, but their calls fell on deaf ears.
In a letter to Cabinet on Tuesday, May 30, OccupyGhana said it still supports the passage.
“We are glad and saddened at the same time that the government that thumbed its nose at us on this issue, has now found its way back to the table, compelled, not because the activism of well-meaning citizens, but because Ghana’s current economic dire straits and the dictates of the IMF.”
“We however wish to assure the government that we remain ready and willing to assist Cabinet in reconsidering the draft Bill, approving it and sending it to parliament for debate and enactment.”
OccupyGhana added that enactment of the said Act will properly regulate the conduct of public officers.
It thus said it will assist the government to successfully pass the Act.
“It is still our conviction that passing the Bill into law will go a long way to properly regulate the conduct of public officers, and bring to pass the government’s new promise to the IMF that the new Act will ‘address current weaknesses of [the assets declaration] system’ and ‘strengthen organizational and legal arrangements for addressing corruption and enhancing accountability and integrity.’”
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