The acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers Authority, Prof Ransford Gyampo, has decried the level of financial malfeasance being discovered to have been committed by appointees in the erstwhile Akufo-Addo administration.
According to him, the details provided by the Attorney-General, Dominic Ayine and a Forensic Audit by the Auditor-General, point to impunity on the part of the appointees accused to have stolen from the state.
“Some of these things are done with impunity. Stealing and thinking you will not be caught is an insult to our sensibilities,” Prof Gyampo said on TV3’s KeyPoints on November 1.
“And so to steal, but on top insult the sensibilities of the people, should warrant a stiffer punishment that will bring about some deterrence,” he suggested.
He expressed worry that if this is not done, things will get out of hand.
“…the way things are going, it appears that its becoming even more lucrative to want to dip your hands in the coffers because if we take you to the court, you can hire the services of a good lawyer who will drag the matter for more than four years so that if power changes hands, someone will come and say i have given you amnesty, ” Prof Gyampo lamented.
His comments come on the back of revelations by the Attorney-General in relations to infractions detected at the National Signals Bureau, National Service Authority and National Food and Buffer stock Authority running into billions of cedis.
