Whistle Blowers Act Approved

Cabinet has given approval for the enactment of a Whistle Blowers Act to encourage people with information on corruption to report to the appropriate agencies for the law to take its cause.

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Papa Owusu Ankomah, disclosed this at Sekondi in the Western Region. He was addressing the Sekondi Youth Congress of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

A Whistle Blower is someone who tells people in authority or public about dishonest or illegal practices in business and government. The passage of the Whistle Blower’s Act by Parliament will be the fulfillment of yet another promise by the government.

The government on assumption of office promised a zero tolerance for corruption and assured that it would set up an accountability office at the office of the President which has already been realized. In addition it assured that it will table before Parliament a Whistle Blowers Act to encourage people to volunteer information on corruption practices.