Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante-Akim North in the Ashanti Region, Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi, has proposed to government to criminalize professional negligence as a way of curbing corruption in the country.

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According to him, he has observed some professionals in the country who do not offer quality services when contracts are awarded to them.

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A reason he insisted,“ If road contractors, for instance, fail to deliver their work to meet standard after being contracted by the state, they should be made to face criminal action so that when we criminalise professional negligence it will reduce the spate of corruption."

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He made his comment at the 2021 report by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime which ranked the Police to be the foremost public institution perceived to be most corrupt.

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On his part, former Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) Vitus Azeem, also called for punitive punishments against corrupt officials after thorough investigation on corruption allegations.

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Adding that anyone found culpable should be jailed, with their properties confiscated to the state.

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Until then, he said, the fight against corruption will deter citizens  “if the state is bold enough to jail people for corruption people will not engage in it with impunity”.

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