{"id":328083,"date":"2017-06-14T06:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328083"},"modified":"2017-06-14T06:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:10:46","slug":"parliament-must-monitor-public-finances-effectively-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/parliament-must-monitor-public-finances-effectively-nana-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament must monitor public finances effectively &#8211; Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Nana Akufo-Addo has bemoaned the inability of Parliament to exercise effective oversight over the Executive arm of government, stressing that Parliament should be able to exercise full authority over public finances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI belong to the group that feels strongly that our Parliament should be able to exercise full authority over our public finances,\u201d\u00a0President Akufo-Addo said during a\u00a0speech delivered at an event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;AewCPQm7KoRpqTErvVVdqj2dOa0pMtK0&#8243;]Thus, President Akufo-Addo said he would be in favour of an amendment of the Constitution, adding that \u201cif this were done, it would enhance significantly Parliament\u2019s oversight capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, however, acknowledged that the amendment of the Constitution is not something that would be easily done, explaining that \u201cwe take our politics very seriously, and we are passionate about our beliefs, and it would not be easy to make such a change or any change, for that matter, to the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judiciary still scarred by\u00a0Anas expos\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also commenting on the Judiciary, President Akufo-Addo said Ghanaians \u201chave not yet lived down the trauma of the excruciating shock and embarrassment of seeing officers of our courts in such compromising situations,\u201d following the Anas expos\u00e9 of corruption in the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>The expose by Anas Aremeyaw Anas revealed deep-rooted corruption within the country\u2019s judiciary system and exposed dozens of judges and other staff of the judicial services who received bribes to pervert justice.<\/p>\n<p>The expos\u00e9, which shocked many Ghanaians is the biggest corruption scandal to have hit the country\u2019s judiciary. An investigation by the service resulted in the suspension of some judges and dismissal of others.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318641\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318641\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nana-Addo-Bawumia-Sophia-Akuffo.jpg\" alt=\"President Akufo-Addo and his Vice with the new Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo.\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Akufo-Addo and his Vice with the nominated Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo, however, believes things will get better for the Judiciary as he expressed confidence that the new prospective Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo, \u201cwill be an effective leader of the Judiciary, and guard jealously its independence. She will bring honour to the Judiciary and to our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Nana Akufo-Addo has bemoaned the inability of Parliament to exercise effective oversight over the Executive arm of government, stressing that Parliament should be able to exercise full authority over public finances. \u201cI belong to the group that feels strongly that our Parliament should be able to exercise full authority over our public finances,\u201d\u00a0President Akufo-Addo said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[3,270,156],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Parliament must monitor public finances effectively - Nana Addo - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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