General News of Wednesday, 3 October 2018Source: Starrfmonline.comParty financiers root of corruption in government – Afriyie AnkrahElvis Afriyie Ankrah is former Sports ministerFormer Sports minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has blamed financiers of the major political parties in the country for the challenges in fighting corruption by governments. He says the financiers, who are often the beneficiaries of shady contracts, make it difficult for reasonable contracts to be signed by ministers when they are put in office. “So we have created a system that legitimises and institutionalises the corruption and at the same time we say we want to deal with the corruption,” he said. Making reference to recent corruption allegations in the Akufo-Addo government, Mr. Afriyie Ankrah challenged Ghanaians to look at the root cause of those cases and how close they are to party financiers. “Check all the corruption-related cases, from BOST to whatever, check, it is linked to campaign financing.

Source: GhanaWeb October 03, 2018 17:30 UTC