Ghana has gained international notoriety due to corruption - Victor Smith

Former Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland, Victor Smith has prayed for Akufo-Addo to have the courage to punish corrupt officials.

The 2016 parliamentary Abuakwa North candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in an interview with Kwame Tutu said corruption is killing Ghana.

Ghana he noted has gained international notoriety due to corruption.

Speaking in an interview with Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm he said, corruption has been institutionalised and investors are usually frustrated when they come down to do business in Ghana.

He revealed, as a former High Commissioner I received complaints from investors who wanted to register their companies that some individuals wanted to extort monies from them.

In his view, we have not been able to fight corruption, therefore it will be important for people who have been mandated to enforce the law to do so.

He said, the fight against corruption requires a courageous leader who will not bend the laws in favour of anyone. Ghana needs to move forward. Ghana must come first in the fight against corruption.

The law must work at all times no matter what, he added. Mr. Smith also took his gun at the media over ‘soli’ adding, it has become part of corruption.

He said, that compromises their work and so I will urge media owners to pay their workers well so they don’t depend on ‘’Item Thirteen’ or ‘noko fio’.

‘’Bribery and corruption has been a major problem and every stakeholder must join in the fight. We should help our leaders to fight corruption so Ghana can move forward.We are stakeholders of this nation. We have leaders and we have followers but we are all stakeholders in the fight against corruption,’’ he concluded.