The Weekend Statesman

The government has been urged to muster the political will to effectively tackle the problem of corruption since there are enough laws on Ghana?s statute books empowering the executive to do so.

The Weekend Statesman in a front page story reports Mr Justice P.D. Anin, a retired Supreme Court Judge as saying there is no need to enact new laws to deal with corruption. Mr Anin, who is also a former President of the Gambian Court of Appeal, was speaking at a garden discussion on: "Corruption and the Adjudication Process in Ghana", organised by the Institute of Economic Affairs in Accra.

The paper says Mr Justice Anin referred to the recent announcement by President Jerry Rawlings that the government will soon come out with a code of conduct for public officers and said that such a code already exists in the 1992 Constitution.