The Upper East Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) Fredrick Mawuli Agbenu has decried the pervasiveness of corruption in the country.
Speaking in an interview on Breakfast Today, Mawuli Agbenu said corruption has become a norm in Ghana, with many electorates encouraging leaders to swindle state resources.
He said while many people do not have access to basic amenities, leadership have made it a point to milk the available resources for their personal gains instead of seeing to the provision of these amenities.
“in Ghana, we have lived with this corruption and it’s even become a fashion where constituents are encouraging their representatives to also bring money. ‘when the colleagues are bringing money, why aren’t you bringing money’.
So the state has become a milking cow. Every politician goes into office to milk the state yet the amenities that we need in the society are not being implemented,” he stated.
Mawuli Agbenu was speaking on Ghana’s 67th Independence journey in an interview on Breakfast Today on Dreamz FM.
He noted that Ghana has stagnated in its 67-year journey and has been overtaken by its peers in terms of advancement.
He attributed the decades of stagnation to political instability and corruption.
The NCCE Regional Director observed that although the country has had a sustained political system for the past 3 decades, its underdevelopment persists due to corruption.
The rot, he said, has become so pervasive that many consider it a norm and chastise leaders who don’t engage in it.
Mawuli Agbenu further pinned the widespread nature of the canker on unbridled partisanship.
According to him, corruption has been so politicized in the country that citizens, instead of holding leaders accountable, are defending them based on party lines.
“The corruption which is still with us even though we’ve had the revolution that was purported to have eradicated corruption in Ghana but it has reared its ugly head again and the political stability that we have suffered,” he said.
“But now that we have got the politics right in the sense that the Fourth Republic is turning out to be a durable kind of regime that we are maintaining, another thing that is still disturbing us is the corruption and this corruption is fuelled by the unbridled partisanship that we are facing in this country so that once it is done by my people, ‘he is my devil so I’ll support him”.
