Citi News<\/strong>, Mr. Kaufman said that Ghanaians must use the scandals that happen as an opportunity to set up regulations that will seek to control corruption.<\/p>\n\u201c\u2026The point is to seize the opportunities, where there is a fall in commodity prices, the UK summit and the commitments made or if there are questions about gifts and not only to focus on the short-term, but to use it to constructively define what constitutes a legitimate versus what would be corrupt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”PHdghxBjq8IbkNBazyaM3ZHXAyOvwrcV”]\u201cI don\u2019t know if it is part of the regulatory framework here, but any gift should be fully reported. This should not just be in principle and for only authorities, but it should be for everybody to see and scrutinize.\u201d<\/p>\n
This comes following intense\u00a0pressure from opposition and some pressure groups on\u00a0President John Dramani Mahama, for accepting a car gift that is said to be worth over $100,000 from a Burkinabe contractor, allegedly to influence him.<\/p>\n
The Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, has admitted giving President Mahama a Ford Expedition vehicle, for which the President called to thank him.<\/p>\n
The gift according to reports, was prior to an attempt by the contractor, to win a bid to execute the Dodo Pepeso-Nkwanta road construction project, but government says the car was only added to the pool of state vehicles,\u00a0and that it cannot constitute bribery.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never taken a bribe \u2013 Mahama <\/strong><\/p>\nPresident Mahama in May this year,\u00a0boldly declared that he has never accepted a bribe. The\u00a0President, who was in London to partake in the Anti-Corruption Summit being organised by the UK Government, said this in response to a direct question posed by a BBC Journalist.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the BBC on the sidelines of the summit, President Mahama said, \u201cAny human being would have encountered corruption in one way or the other. What you need to do is to put yourself in a position to (resist it)\u201d, the President noted. But when asked was specifically asked if he had ever taken a bribe before, the President was quick to say no, \u201cI haven\u2019t taken a bribe.\u201d<\/p>\n
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