{"id":7761,"date":"2019-09-06T13:36:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2019-09-06T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:36:38","slug":"corruption-choking-public-sector-senior-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/09\/06\/corruption-choking-public-sector-senior-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption \u2018Choking\u2019 Public Sector \u2013 Senior Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Mafo, has lamented about the wanton corruption in Ghana\u2019s public sector.<\/p>\n<p>He has, therefore, rally Ghanaians to fight corruption at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorruption is a big toll on our resources and we have to fight it and fight it hard,\u201d he bemoaned.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Senior Minister, there are lots of leakages at the harbour, saying that \u201cpeople who are supposed to pay 10 are paying 2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He revealed for instance that a project that is executed by the private sector in Ghana at say GH\u00a2 1 million is executed by a public institution at a cost of GH\u00a2 1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Minister was speaking in an engagement with some Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on Friday, September 6, 2019, at a ceremony organized by the Ghana Beyond Aid Committee.<\/p>\n<p>He called for the return of the spirit of volunteerism and patriotism among Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>He also called attitudinal change and values to ensure the fight against corruption is possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source: dailyguidenetwork<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Mafo, has lamented about the wanton corruption in Ghana\u2019s public sector. He has, therefore, rally Ghanaians to fight corruption at all levels. \u201cCorruption is a big toll on our resources and we have to fight it and fight it hard,\u201d he bemoaned. According to the Senior Minister, there are lots of leakages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[6850,1357,1384,11954,192,2597,1356,12502,5333,594],"class_list":["post-7761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-aid","tag-civil-society-organizations","tag-corruption","tag-engagement","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-beyond-aid","tag-ghana-beyond-aid-committee","tag-ghanaians","tag-rally","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}