Fred
Agbenyo, a member of the Communications team of the National Democratic
Congress, has called on government to sanction corrupt officials.
He
implored government to ensure that any official caught in the web of
corruption faces the full rigors of the law. “They need to go through
the due process of the law.”
Reacting to the shocking revelation
by the State Enterprise Audit Corporation that documents covering the
sale of the GNPC Drill Ship to Societe General have been lost, Fred
Agbenyo expressed disappointment over the report.
The controversy
surrounding the sale of the ship heightened on Monday when the Senior
Manager of the State Enterprise Audit Corporation disclosed to the
Judgement Debt Commission that the "working papers on the transaction
covering the year 2001 has been destroyed."
He said "the
documents had outlived their usefulness (after 10 years), moreso, nobody
had come out to challenge the 'clean audit report' they submitted on
the activities of GNPC since 2001,” as published in the Tuesday edition
of the Ghanaian Times.
But speaking on Peace FM, Fred Agbenyo
found it "dangerous" that the documents were destroyed just because they
had outlived their relevance.
According to him, it does not augur well to find official documents ruined as a result of their life span.
He
therefore sought a review of the constitutional provision that gives
right to government officials to either burn or shred documents which to
him, could have served useful purposes for the future.
“That is
very, very dangerous. If indeed our laws support that, here in Ghana,
when we make transaction, be it foreign transaction or a local
transaction and after 6 years, you can shred the document; then it’s
very dangerous,” he stated.
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