President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says not everyone in a public office is corrupt.
He said it is wholly untrue that elected officials are in office to steal.
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.
Speaking to the delegation, President Akufo-Addo expressed worry about the growing misconception and urged Ghanaians to discard such assertions.
“We ought to pray for the understanding in Ghana that not everybody who is 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,” President Akufo-Addo said.
He also dispelled the notion that law enforcement and anti-corruption bodies tend to favour the ruling government.
According to him, security agencies and other anti-corruption entities, such as the Ghana Police Service (GPS), are dedicated to serving the public’s interests and not the interests of any specific individual or government.
“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,”
