The Executive Director of Transparency International Ghana, Madam Mary Addah, has revealed that Ghana loses more than GHC 3 billion annually to corrupt practices in various institutions.
“About three and even more billion of cedis goes into corruption on an annual basis…,” she revealed on Starr FM’s Morning Show, Morning Star on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.
This victimless crime, she said is not only a statistic but represents a direct theft of the people’s future as these funds are sufficient to provide quality education, improved healthcare, and a robust road network for the nation.
“The cost of corruption on the lives of the ordinary citizen is huge. The number of schools that could have been built for our children, our grandchildren to have opportunity… is taken away by the corrupt,” she lamented.
With the effects of the canker becoming unbearable every day, Madam Adda, called on the citizens to be vocal against the fight against corruption insisting that is part of the ways of ensuring accountability.
Madam Addah also urged Ghanaians to take an “apolitical stand” and demand greater accountability from those in power. She argued that citizens must move beyond the “aloofness” of the past two decades and use their voices to insist on change.
“We have a voice, so our voice must be counted. Our voice must say that, “No, the way things have gone on is not what we want.”…we just need to rise and show more commitment to it because we cannot sit aloof and expect that the persons who are seeking their personal interests, self-serving interests, would want to do anything to bring a change…,” she said.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
