We’re not saints, some of our staff have been caught taking bribes – NIA boss
Professor Ken Attafuah, Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA) is not surprised by the recent survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service which has released a list of the top bribe takers institutions in the country.
He confirmed that the authority has been receiving complaints about some of its officials indulging in corrupt activities.
The NIA boss indicated that just like other human organisations, there will be bad nuts in there, but the authority is doing its best to pluck them out.
“We are not saints. Our people are not necessarily better than others. But I think that the monitoring and disciplinary measures we are putting in place are generally working. Some are continuing, but we are doing our best.”
Mr Attafuah added, “We have received reports of corruption at, for instance, the El-Wak stadium. We have received reports of crook boys and girls infiltrating our system. In one instance, I even had to close down an entire office to change the personnel. We had to do that after we confirmed that the personnel were indulging in all manner of corrupt activities. We interdicted those people and appropriate interdisciplinary measures are underway”.
