President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo stressed the importance of dispelling the notion that individuals elected to public office are inherently corrupt and that law enforcement and anti-corruption bodies tend to favor the ruling government.
He underlined that security agencies and other anti-corruption entities, including the Ghana Police Service, are committed to serving the public’s interests, not the interests of any specific individual or government.
President Akufo-Addo urged everyone to challenge the perception that elected officials are corrupt and in office to enrich themselves.
“We ought to pray for the understanding in Ghana that not everybody who is elected in this office is a thief. It’s an assumption in our country that people who come to political offices enrich themselves. Some of us would have been better off in the private sector. It is an assumption that we ought to work hard and try and dispel.”
“And part of dispelling will be encouraging a belief in these institutions of our state. These institutions that have been set up whether it is the police, or anti-corruption agencies are working in the interest of Ghana and not of the government of the day.”
“And we should all find a way of bolstering the confidence of the people in them…We have to pray that that becomes understood and that becomes a reality,” President Akufo-Addo said when the new Chairman of the Christian Council, Rt. Rev. Dr. Hilliad Dogbe led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House.”
