Corruption can be fought with strong bureaucratic structures

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Sam Pee Yalley
Sam Pee Yalley

Ambassador designate, Sam Pee?Yarley, has blamed the recurrent identification of financial malfeasance by the Auditor-General in the country?s public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions to weak ?bureaucratic structures?.

The former Deputy Chief Executive of the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) says his long experience in?various state institutions show that the much held view that politicians are the most corrupt is an unfortunate?misconception.

According to him, the Chief Directors, whose tenure of?office is not determined by changes in government are the most culpable of finacial irregularities in the various state institutions such as Ministeries due to the country’s loose?civil and?public service systems.

Sam Yalley was reacting to a recent report by the Auditor General in which GH?2,019,188,488.76 (US$50,748,780) was uncovered from the accounting books of public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions on Radio Gold?s Alhaji and Alhaji news analysis programme.

The irregularities, which were listed in the A-G’s 2012 report on 77 public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions, include lack of documentation on loan agreements stipulating the terms and conditions, misapplication of funds, overestimation of funds needed and the failure to notify bankers to stop payments of unearned salaries, are listed in the A-G?s 2012 report on 77 public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions.

Mr Yalley said from one government to the next,?corruption and financial malfeeasance persist even though Ministers, who are perceived to be more corrupt are changed or reassigned, reiterating his point that?the kinds of Chief Directors and bureaucratic leaders in civil and public institutions are equally guilty, if not more,?of??corrupt activities.

?I know of Chief Directors who have various assets but when it comes to assets declaration [issues], they point to the political heads?, he said.

He said because Ministers act on advice of Chief Directors of public institutions, they must be seen as a critical group in issues of corruption.

?The Minister does not have the right to write a memo for the release of money?these things are orchestrated and perpetuated by the public servants?, Mr Yalley stated.

He tasked President Mahama to take a critical look at the civil service bureaucracy if his fight against corruption would yield success.

Source Myjoyonline

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