The United Cadres Front (UCF) is calling on President Mahama to expedite action on persons who are found culpable in recent corruption cases in the public sector.
The group wants the President to direct the management Board of the NSS to step aside for investigations to begin.
The National Service Secretariat paid GHC7.9 million to 22,612 non-existent national service persons in more than 100 districts in July 2014.
[contextly_sidebar id=”747SrzcQqkOb92Oyw2dtj0WnMZQe0dOJ”]According to the findings, the NSS Director, Ahaji Alhassan allegedly tried to bribe the investigators a sum of about GH¢100,000 in an attempt to silence the BNI team.
Though several individuals and groups have asked for the dissolution of the Board the Deputy Minister of Tertiary Education has said the Board will not be dissolved.
But the General Secretary of the UCF, Nyaku Afanam in a press statement said the UCF “feels the posturing of the Governing Board of the NSS is rather hypocritical”
“We call for nothing short of they, dishonourably resigning themselves to the board’s membership. If they do not, then the President should take every legal weapon at his disposal to get them out.”
Apart from the scandal that hit the Secretariat, the Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice(CHRAG) has been accused of spending 20,000 dollars on rent alone.
Her expenditure on her rent has raised concerns over the increasing spate of corruption in the country.
According to the UCF “the recent developments within the public sector administration of this country has left the United Cadres’ Front (UCF) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in no doubt that the country has ‘progressively’ crawled back to the old and killing habits that led to the 1979 June Four Up-Rising which was immediately followed by the 31st December, 1981 revolution.”
He said the “UCF regrets that the drastic measures that was taken to restore sanity to our public sector administration over the rot that manifested at the time – and which was to a large extent successful, has finally resurfaced and running at a faster pace than expected.”
The group says the two major political parties have over the years not done much to fight the canker.
“The two major political parties that keep rotating the administration of this country has over the years not done much in fighting the canker. Political organs within these two major parties, the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) continuously see nothing wrong with their parties’ personalities involving themselves in naked thievery.”
By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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