Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference urges gov’t to prosecute corruption cases

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has urged the government to prosecute all corruption cases without fear or favour. The Conference said reports from the Judgement Debts Commission, GYEEDA, Sa­vanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), the National Service Scheme, FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the Commission on Hu­man Rights and Administrative Justice as worry­ing. These were contained in a communiqué issued after its plenary assembly in Accra on Friday. Reading the communiqué at a church service at the Holy Spirit Cathedral, Adabraka, to climax its week-long meeting, the Most Rev Joseph Osei- Bonsu, president of GCBC, said the bishops were disturbed about the ‘twin-evil’, bribery and corrup­tion in the country, and “regret to note that these evils continue to range every fabric of Ghanaian society”. He said the country is openly and pervasively corrupt with people at all levels, including some Christians engaging in naked corruption with impu­nity and urged government to do more to nip the canker in the bud. He lauded the government for prosecuting some high level personalities in its administra­tion for their alleged involvement in corrupt prac­tices. The communiqué said greed breeds hard­heartedness, stealing, blackmail, bribery, corrup­tion and even murder, adding that corruption en­courages and condones incompetence, bureau­cracy, mediocrity at work, and disrespect for higher authorities. Such factors, it said, also drive away invest­ment and lead to unnecessary suffering and pov­erty, and urged all to resolve to refrain from such acts, while entreating individuals and businesses to do their part to end corruption in the country.

Source:Myjoyonline.com