The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) and the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) as part of events to mark Africa Anti-Corruption Day visited the Ningo Senior High School to engage students and staff on corruption and how it affects them.

They also took the opportunity to educate the students and staff on their role in the fight against corruption in the country.

The Africa Anti-Corruption Day is marked on July 11 every year to commemorate the day the African Union (AU) adopted the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combatting Corruption (AUCPCC) in Maputo, Mozambique on 11 July 2003.

The Convention came into force in 2006. As of August 2021, the Convention has been ratified by 44 Member States of the African Union.

The OSP and GACC as part of the school engagement educated the students and staff about the mandate of the Office of the Special Prosecutor in preventing corruption, for instance, through corruption sensitization programmes like the school engagement, investigate corruption, prosecute corruption and recover proceeds of corruption.

Students and staff were also taught how to report and document corruption, as well as the various forms of corruption.

Also, they were taught how corruption deprives them of quality education and infrastructure, and contributes to unemployment in the country.

The students were given the opportunity to ask questions.

They expressed excitement when they were told there is a financial reward for those who report corruption which leads to the successful conviction of a person – up to 10 per cent of whatever OSP recovers.