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What the President should do to win war on corruption

At a recent State House summit on governance and accountability, the President confirmed one thing among others: that he had no political spine to fight the vice of corruption.

The President blamed the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission for submitting to his office an “unreliable” list of persons suspected to be corrupt which he acted on and lost political capital. Further, he derided the Auditor-General for discharging the mandate of his office which is: to audit Government bodies and report on their management of public funds more specifically Euro-Bond money. In the president‘s view, the Auditor-General‘s continued search for information and proof of accountability was inappropriate and unwarranted.

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