Martin Kpebu: Akufo-Addo and Bawumia must resign.

Due to their inability to combat corruption, a private attorney has demanded that President Akufo-Addo and his Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, resign from their positions. 

Martin Kpebu claims that the President won the 2016 general elections by using an anti-corruption campaign while he was still in the opposition. In order for a more qualified person to cope with the canker, he and his government should resign if they haven’t been able to stop the threat.

“[President] Akufo-Addo pledged to make corruption unappealing, but in this instance, he is doing nothing to address the issue. He has demonstrated his incapacity, and [Vice President] Bawumia has also demonstrated his incapacity, so we want to try someone else.

“The ideal thing would be for the President to willingly leave,” he said on Saturday to Newsfile anchor Samson Lardy Anyenini. 

Mr. Kpebu described events from 1969 in which the head of state, Lieutenant General Joseph Arthur Ankrah, resigned due to allegations of paying roughly $20,000 in bribes. He suggested that President Akufo-Addo and Dr. Bawumia can imitate the former Head of State’s behavior in terms of bribery and corruption.

In his opinion, if they voluntarily retire, history will overlook all of their flaws. 

“History would forgive [President] Akufo-Addo and Dr. Bawumia for all the rots they have superintended if they resign today. They will receive the best applause. He predicted that Ghanaians will get a new chance to try someone else to combat corruption.

A recent poll that reveals the amount of corruption in the nation is what prompted Mr. Kpebu to ask for the resignation of the President and his Vice. 

According to a survey by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), bribes of $5 billion were paid last year to obtain basic services in both the public and private sectors. According to the “2021 Ghana Integrity of Public Services Survey,” 26.7 percent of public sector employees and 9.1 percent of private sector employees engaged in bribery.

The analysis also revealed that 26.7 percent of Ghanaians engage in bribery, suggesting that one in four people who interacted with public officials in the year before to the survey had either been requested to pay a bribe or were offered a bribe but declined to do so. The analysis also revealed that 26.7 percent of Ghanaians engage in bribery, suggesting that one in four people who interacted with public officials in the year before to the survey had either been requested to pay a bribe or were offered a bribe but declined to do so.

According to the poll, Ghana’s rural and urban areas have the same prevalence of bribery on average. But there are significant differences among the 16 regions of the nation. 

For instance, the regional prevalence of bribery was significantly lower than the national rate in the Bono East, Savannah, and Volta regions. The percentages of corruption in the three regions were 11.8 percent, 14.5 percent, and 19.1 percent, respectively. The percentage of corrupt instances recorded was significantly greater in the Western North, Ahafo, and North East regions, at 53.4, 47.0, and 41.9 percent, respectively.

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