The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has criticized President Akufo-Addo's efforts to combat corruption.

According to the GBA, numerous instances of corruption have not been subjected to thorough investigations, and there have been instances where individuals implicated in corrupt practices have been exonerated without any repercussions.

During a press conference held in Accra, GBA President Yaw Acheampong Boafo conveyed the association's disappointment with the state of the anti-corruption campaign.

“If your goal in coming to government is to enrich yourself then don’t come, go to the private. The public sector is going to be about public service exactly. This undertaking gave hope to Ghanaians of the emergence of a new dawn of politics.”

“However, it is our view, with several related corruption-related incidents involving some of the political appointees and also among some public officers under the current administration and the lethargic manner with which they are dealt with and even defended and protected leaves a lot to be desired,” he stated.

Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo has underscored the importance of dispelling the notion that individuals elected to public office are inherently corrupt and that law enforcement and anti-corruption bodies tend to show favoritism to the ruling government.

He stressed that security agencies and other anti-corruption organizations, including the Ghana Police Service (GPS), are committed to serving the public's interests rather than the interests of any specific individual or government.

President Akufo-Addo called on everyone to reject the perception that elected officials are inherently corrupt and in office with the intention to engage in corrupt practices.

“We ought to pray for the understanding in Ghana that not everybody elected in this office is a thief. It’s an assumption in our country that people who come to political offices enrich themselves. Some of us would have been better off in the private sector. It is an assumption that we ought to work hard and try and dispel.”

“And part of dispelling will be encouraging a belief in these institutions of our state. These institutions that have been set up whether it is the police, or anti-corruption agencies are working in the interest of Ghana and not of the government of the day.

“And we should all find a way of bolstering the confidence of the people in them…We have to pray that that becomes understood and that becomes a reality,” President Akufo-Addo said when the new Chairman of the Christian Council, Rt. Rev. Dr. Hilliad Dogbe led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House.