The Executive Director of Transparency International Ghana, Madam Mary Addah, has acknowledged that President John Dramani Mahama has demonstrated a clear intent to tackle corruption through various administrative frameworks.
Speaking on Starr FM’s morning show, Morning Starr, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, Madam Addah highlighted the President’s efforts in establishing a code of conduct for his appointees and overseeing the development of the National Ethics and Anti-Corruption Action Plan.
“This current president (John Dramani Mahama) has shown that he wants to fight corruption through putting together a code of conduct for his appointees. He also put together the group that developed the National Ethics and Anti-Corruption Action Plan, and he’s indicated to us that amongst the four priorities, corruption is one of them,” she said.
Madam Addah noted that while the President has signaled that combating corruption is one of his administration’s top four priorities, the transition from policy to practice has been slow and there remains a significant gap between the government’s rhetoric and the actual implementation of anti-corruption measures.
“We cannot fault them for rhetoric,” Addah stated. “However, when it comes to implementation, we want to see more”.
Drawing on empirical research and feedback from the Ghanaian public, Madam Addah observed a recurring trend in the nation’s governance: “in-regime accountability” remains consistently low.
She pointed out that while some anti-corruption actions often take place “post-regime,” these efforts are typically slow and fail to address corruption in real-time.
“So we can say, even though we haven’t done any research to say how is commitment reflected in action, we can say—and the experience from empirical research over time, speaking to the people of Ghana, has been that when it comes to in-regime accountability, fighting corruption is very low. However, when it comes to post-regime, some action takes place, but that is also been very slow. So the commitment and action against the rhetoric is—if put on the scale—there is a very huge imbalance,” she said.
Madam Adda therefore called on the President to transform his intent into action.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
