The Chairman of Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Ben Abdallah, has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is not in a hurry to prosecute former officials of the Mahama administration who may have involved themselves in some corrupt acts.
The Committee is currently working on the office of the Special Prosecutor Bill which seeks to deal mainly with public sector corruption.
Speaking to Citi News, Ben Abdallah, who is also the Member of Parliament for the Offinso South constituency, said his committee hopes to push the bill through before the budget reading later in November.
“I’ve already alluded to the fact that before you take anyone to court, you need to weigh the facts, carry out thorough and comprehensive investigation, and you need to come up with certain facts which are of probative value before you proceed to court. If you hurriedly proceed to court because you want Mr. A or Mr. B to be prosecuted in order to satisfy political A or political B, your facts may not be adequate enough to prosecute the matter.”
“And this government is not in a hurry to rush any matter to court for the sake of prosecution. This government is taking its time to do what is legitimately and legally expected of it. And to prosecute what is legitimately and legally expected of it; and I believe that at the end of the day, when the time is due, the necessary legal action will be taken,” he added.
Prosecutions of corrupt officials to begin in October
This comes on the back of an assurance from a Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Kpemka, who in August 2017 stated that, the alleged corrupt officials of the Mahama government will be dragged to court in October.
Although the October deadline has elapsed, Ghanaians are yet to witness the prosecution of such appointees.
Source: citifmonline.com
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nana addo cannot do foko! We choppd Ghana money to make it broke. Nana was barking all over the place that we are corrupt. He used it to win power. Yet he cannot do foko. And you people are fuuuuuuuuuuulish enough to vote for nana. Koshiiia!!! Ghanaians will vote out Nana addo soon. And we shall return to chop more & more!!! Mark it on the wall. nana Addo is old and usellllesss! You can see it yourself. ha ha haaaa NDC will return to chopppp more in 2020. Because nana addo is a barking toothless puppy!!!!!
We will enjoy our stolllen money. We will do him like the way Tsikata did Kufuor. We will not go to jail. AM saving your words so that when the judgement time comes you and your NDC cohorts will not demonstrate on the streets of Accra and say WITCH-HUNTING. I am so so happy that the NDC is calling for its members who are perceived to be involved in corrupt practices to be jailed. Ghanaians have patience for NDC just as Ghanaians had patience during their time in government when they insulted everybody including elderly people, chiefs, the clergy. Lessons to be learnt: When you have so many immatured college boys running state affairs that is the results you get. When you have a party full of semi-illiterates/complete illiterates forming about 70% of their membership then one will not be surprise to see what they are doing. Because, when they have no answer to issues or are clueless on issues being debated they resort to insults and "tackershi". In fact University education did not help a lot of them. You have a former president casting insinuations and you bootlickers running to defend any thing this man says. The descening minority ghanaians who will decide who becomes president in 2020 are listening to the insults NDC has started in the 10 months of a 4 year rule of a new government. TO THE NDC BY ALL MEANS THEY MUST MAKE JDM PRESIDENT IN 2020. CAN I ASK A HUMBLE QUESTION OF WHY? AND FOR WHAT. BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN & EXPERIENCE JDM PERFORMANCE AND MAJORITY GHANAIANS ESPECIALLY MY OLD FOLKS SAYS NO NO NO COS THERE IS LACK OF RESPECT IN THE COUNTRY DURING JDM TENURE.
Though it may tarry,yet it will surely come!Wait and see!
we told u NPP is a useeless govt. Nana Addo is a useleess jackasss. we told u. we chppped ghana money. But he cannot do anything because he is an old useeelesss fuuuuuuuuuul. We will do him like the way Tsikata did Kufuor. We will not go to jail. We will enjoy our stolllen money. And Ghanaians will lose faith in NPP by 2020. and NDC will come back to chop even more than ever. Stuuuuppppidddd NPP govt. Nkwassshiafuorrr
Nana addo is usellllesss. He made so much noise about corrruption under NDC and he has been in power 10 months fooooooooling around with Shatta Wale and 110 ministers instead of fulfilling his promises. Both NDC and NPP are usellllesss people.
Comments like this is what will make NPP lose the people's belief and send them to oppposition. NPP has not learnt from their mistake in 2008. Shame on NPP.
NPP will go into opposition soon. they are behaving foooooooooooolishly.