President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that over 300 individuals are being prosecuted in the country for various corrupt acts they indulged in.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cAs of July 2013, over 300 individuals were on remand for corruption and related offences.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Mahama made the statement at the High Level Conference on the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) held in Accra on Monday.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”XxuM8Uhy6kwWWl34XIBxe2TNur16Idg5″]Ghana has in recent times recorded a number of high profile corruption cases including huge sums of monies wasted on the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (SADA) and \u00a0the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Authority<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (GYEEDA) which have not been accounted for.<\/p>\n According to President Mahama \u201cIn respect to allegations of corruption at the GYEEDA, there are on-going prosecutions of public officials involved, including former high-ranking officials. Service providers who breached the terms of their contracts are being held to refund the monies to Government.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut does this mean that GYEEDA, and all the positive work that it was intended to do in our communities, must now be abandoned?\u201d he questioned adding that \u201cin a democracy, the wheels of justice turn rather slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n MDS must\u00a0mplement AG\u2019s report or face my wrath\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n President Mahama further directed all Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs) in the country to implement the Auditor General\u2019s report or face sanctions.<\/p>\n Pressure group, Occupy Ghana,had earlier\u00a0threatened to drag the Auditor General to court<\/strong><\/a><\/span> if it does not retrieve monies that were illegally paid to some individuals.<\/p>\n \u201cI am writing to all Ministers and giving them deadlines for implementation of Auditor General\u2019s report as it pertains to their various MDAs,\u201d Mahama stated.<\/p>\n He said \u201cMinisters who are supposed to be the Chairperson of their various ARICS would be required to either surcharge persons for state resources misapplied or in cases where it is recommended hand over to the Attorney General any persons found culpable of misappropriating government finances.\u201d<\/p>\n He insisted that \u201cFailure to implement the AG\u2019s report by the deadline will attract severe sanctions on the Minister concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n Some revelations by the the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the Auditor Generals report has also shown that some Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have misused public funds<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n