The Africa Development Council (ADC) is calling for a full-scale investigation into what it describes as wanton abuse and neglect of state resources under the Akufo-Addo administration.<\/p>\n
It is demanding that the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative be deployed immediately to trace and retrieve misused public funds.<\/p>\n
In a statement on May 27, the Council expressed outrage at what it called \u201crecklessness\u201d by former government officials who, instead of using existing state infrastructure, opted for personal gain at the taxpayers\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ADC has noticed with great concern, the level of recklessness in terms of abandonment of State Machinery by the previous regime on the altar of self-aggrandisement,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
The Council said the situation within Ghana\u2019s Foreign Affairs sector was worse than imagined.<\/p>\n
According to the group, instead of occupying official residences designated for Regional Coordinating Councils and Ambassadors, officials allegedly preferred to lodge in private hotels\u2014leaving government properties to deteriorate while the state paid for expensive accommodation.<\/p>\n
\u201cResidencies of Regional Coordinating Councils were left to rot, while personal hotels were used instead, with the State footing the bills,\u201d the Council noted.<\/p>\n
It singled out the Russian Federation as a recent example, claiming that Ghana\u2019s diplomatic residence there was left idle while state funds were spent on hotel stays for the Ambassador.<\/p>\n
The ADC is urging the ORAL Taskforce to act swiftly and decisively.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ORAL Team must investigate and retrieve all sums of money that were unnecessarily billed the State,\u201d the statement charged.<\/p>\n
The Council further recommended that the current administration should, without delay, recall or reshuffle Ghana\u2019s diplomatic staff across the globe to sanitise the system and end entrenched practices of waste and indiscipline.<\/p>\n
In what appears to be another blow to Ghana\u2019s diplomatic reputation, the ADC revealed that even land gifted to the country under reciprocal bilateral arrangements had been left undeveloped.<\/p>\n
\u201cGhana was given some plots of land to build its own Embassy, yet those plots of land still remain unutilised. This happened in the Russian Federation,\u201d the Council stated.<\/p>\n
Calling for a generational shift in leadership thinking, the ADC concluded that it is time Ghana abandoned short-term, ad-hoc governance for long-range planning that prioritizes public interest and sustainability.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is time the leadership of the country began to think beyond the current generation, to do away with an ad-hoc style of leadership,\u201d the statement urged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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