We are dancing around corruption- Emile Short

A former boss of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short says corruption is prevalent in the country.

According to him, Ghanaians are not fighting corruption but rather dancing around it.

“I don’t think we are fighting (it) we are only dancing around the problem…,” he said.

Speaking on Joy FM’s news analysis show Newsfile Saturday, he said more effort must be put in tackle the menace in the country.

For his part, the Executive Director for the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD Ghana), Mr Henry Kwasi Prempeh called on president Akufo-Addo stop putting his job on the line for his appointees.

He criticised the president for consistently defending his appointees accused of corrupt practices.

Mr Prempeh said the development is worrying and not only does it make the fight against corruption difficult, but the president is also putting his job on the line in the process.

He added that the practice is not helpful to the fight against public corruption.

“This tendency of the president clearing his ministers or appointees pushing back allegation not against him but his appointees is a bit worrisome. It prejudices the investigations, if any other special prosecutor or something that Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) could have done it, they no longer feel they have the political green light to proceed.” He explained.

According to him, reports of police finishing corruption investigation and handing it to the president is “the unfortunate system we are burdened with.”