Weekly Insight - J.J.?s Office refuses to investigate corruption

In a front page screaming headline story, the Weekly Insight reports that the Office of the President has flatly refused to look into allegations of corruption in the Judicial Service running into several billion cedis.

The paper says in a later dated June 23, 1999, the Secretary to the President, Mr J.L.M. Amissah, said the Castle is not the proper place to refer allegations of corruption in the Judicial Service.

According to the paper, the letter was in response to a petition forwarded to the President by Mr G.K. Fordjour, Acting Financial Controller of the Judicial Service, alleging that billions of cedis of the taxpayers? money had been lost through corruption. Mr Fordjour is reported as saying that as a result of the inability of the Judicial Service to live within its budgetary allocation, it is indebted to the tune of 1.8 billion cedis for 1998. The Acting Financial Controller alleged that the indebtedness of the Service from January to May, this year, stood at over 1.1 billion cedis.