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The Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, says government is putting in place the necessary safeguards, reforming the existing systems and putting in place measures that reduce human interface in the work process, in a concerted effort to fight corruption.

According to Vice President Bawumia, government is convinced that these reforms, anchored on the back of digitisation, would also ensure efficiency, contribute to reducing revenue leakages and ensure faster turnaround in service provision.

Vice President Bawumia shed more light on government’s fight against corruption when he participated in activities commemorating the International Anti-Corruption and Human Rights Day in Accra on Monday 10th December, 2018. The occasion also marked the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights as well as the 15th Anniversary of United Nations Convention Against Corruption.

“It is very important in the fight against corruption, to understand that we need to have the systems in place that would help us prevent corruption in the first place. We’ve been working in a very informal system since Independence some 61 years ago. Our system of governance and general interactions within society has been highly informal, and the existence of that level of informality, the lack of systems, only serves to breed more and more corruption.”

The NPP Government, he maintained, is determined to formalise the Ghanaian economy, and is leveraging on technology to effect reforms such as a paperless clearing system at the ports which has reduced the number of inspection agencies from 16 to 3, infusion of technology in the acquisition and renewal of drivers’ licences and passports, digitisation of land records, issuance of a national ID card, and the implementation of Mobile Money Interoperability to make banking services available to all and perhaps more importantly, be able to reduce revenue leakages.

“We have been very clear in our minds that we need to put in place systems that reduce human interface. Systems that allow for the digitisation of the work process, so that people can have a much more efficient experience in the obtaining of public services,” he explained.