Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), the local chapter of Transparency International, is warning about the growing infiltration of state-owned enterprises and the public sector by criminal elements through overly partisan political appointments.
It says the situation where appointments to positions in the state-owned enterprises and the public sector are influenced by partisan political considerations is not helpful to efforts at making people accountable and giving more oxygen to corruption.
Michael Boadi, the Ghana Integrity Initiative’s Fund-Raising Manager, cast it as deeply troubling the situation where people are appointed to positions in the public corporations based purely on their political affiliation and nothing else.
Such appointees tend to see themselves as accountable exclusively to the person who appointed them instead of the state.
This is creating a problem and making the fight to bring down corruption in the country increasingly difficult.
Michael Boadi said it was instructive to note that all cases of reported corruption in the country had always involved people who are known to be politically well-connected.
The state therefore becomes impotent to deal with such individuals with strong and powerful political links.
Michael Boadi said the net effect of this was that these people would only become more emboldened to steal.
The inaction of the state to deal with these individuals who are politically affiliated and politically covered is something that should be a worry to everybody eager to see the country make a dent on corruption – bring down and weaken corruption.
The local chapter of Transparency International, according to Michael Boadi, is engaging with the political parties on political campaign financing.
It is an open secret that those who have been financing the election of the political parties, tend to call the shots, when the parties come to power and to them it is all about making money.
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