The Serious Fraud Office (SFO), a statutory body set to help weed put corrupt practices from the society, particularly white collar crimes in official circles, is fast losing credibility in the eyes of the public. This is because directors who are supposed to be supervising the office are themselves embroiled in verbal exchanges against each other.
Only last week, reports were rife in the media that the directors of the office engaged in open recriminations in the full glare of bemused staff who watched on as they accused each other of being corrupt and in the pockets of unnamed politicians.
Not only have people been skeptical, lately, about the SFO’s undue delays investigating and reporting on clear cases of malfeasance and outright crime by some members of the public officers; indeed some members of the public are now questioning the loyalty of the personnel of the office.
“Evening News” newspaper attempts at getting to the bottom of some of the allegations drew uncooperative responses the whole of last week, as one excuse after another was given for the inability of the directors to speak to the newspaper.
It has been reliably gathered that there is indeed, tension between the acting directing, Theophilus Cudjoe, Assistant Director in-charge of Investigation, Tetteh Mensah and Flt Lt (Rtd) Yaw Kutsienyo, Assistant Director in-charge of Administration.
The suspicion, politicking and alleged corrupt practices are seriously undermining the ability of the SFO to conduct professional investigations and come out with honest findings without raising doubts in the mind of the public
Source: GhanaWeb
