Public institutions frustrating anti-corruption campaign – CDD

The Head of Research and Programme at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Paul Abrampah Mensah says anti-corruption campaigns suffer setbacks due to a lack of coordination and support from various institutions across-board.

Abrampah says the fight against corruption is challenging because the nation’s anti-graft war is being frustrated by public institutions.

Efforts to reduce the level of corruption he says will yield results if all interested institutions join forces with the anti-graft bodies to fight it.

“We feel there is a system fighting our course,” as he claimed institutions most often come out to counter damning exposé on corruption without making investigations into it.

“The reality is that there are some individuals who think the system benefits them and so they will do everything possible to oppose anti-corruption campaign,” Abrampah told Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM Wednesday.

Abrampah’s observation comes in the wake of an alleged exposé that has established that about thirty-four judges are complicit in a massive corruption scandal in Ghana’s judiciary.

The senior judges including, High Court Judge Charles Quist, Kofi Essel Mensah and Ajet Nassam have been captured on tape in discussion with suspects or assigns of suspects on how to compromise the cases before the Judges respective courts.

The over six months’ thorough investigations by world-class investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw is said to be the “biggest scandal ever to hit Ghana’s judicial service.” Anas has served notice the video and other hardcore evidence will shake the “democratic foundation of Ghana.”

The incriminatory video shows money changing hands as one could hear the judges including, a Human Rights Court judge, Charles Quist (a High Court Judge) allegedly making demands to throw away cases which include robbery, murder and corruption among others.