There is a day for accountability – Deputy AG advises Public Servants

The Deputy Attorney General, Alfred Tua Yeboah, has sent a warning to all public servants in the country to refrain from any act of corruption in discharging their duties.

This comes after an Accra High Court on Tuesday, April 16, sentenced the embattled CEO of MASLOC to ten years in prison for causing financial loss to the state.

The court also sentenced Mr. Daniel Axim, MASLOC’s former Chief Operating Officer to five years in jail.

Mr. Yeboah argues that no matter how long it takes if you are found guilty of any corruption act, you will be made to account for it.

“Put it at the back of your mind that whichever work you are doing, you will be called in the future to go and account for. Any money given to you to embark on any government project, use it for that and back it with documents for evidence. If you that because you are a public officer and you think that money given to you by government can be squandered without anyone seeing, then you must be joking,” he told Accra-based Adom FM.

“In terms of crime, it doesn’t have an expiry date. It can even take ten to twenty years but when the time is due, you will be asked for accountability. So everyone public servant should go and get a copy of the judgement and read.”

Using the former Chief Operating Officer of MASLOC, Daniel Axim’s case as an example, he said “Ask your boss questions when he gives you money. If you do not ask and accept it because it is your boss, you will find yourself in trouble just as it has happened to Mr. Daniel Axim.