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nti-corruption commission wants powers of enforcement

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    Ghana’s Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has no power to enforce its findings and this limits its ability to curb corruption, Ghana News Agency (GNA) quotes CHRAJ’s chief investigative officer, Ken Attafuah, as saying. Speaking on Monday at a round table discussion in Accra on “issues of corruption and economic development”, he said depoliticising the office of the Attorney General by separating it from the Ministry of Justice or granting CHRAJ the power to prosecute would enable the state to fight corruption better. Attafuah said anti-corruption laws had not had much effect because of poor enforcement and he called on civil society to step up its campaign against corruption.

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