“While Ghanaians are being called upon to pay more taxes to facilitate development, we have public officers embezzling, misapplying and misappropriating public funds through various corrupt activities causing the state to lose billions of Ghana Cedis, with most culprits going unpunished over the years,” the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) stated.

It indicated that it would help save the country from the brink of social upheavals since Ghana has maintained its ranking of 73 on the Corruption Perception Index with a score of 43, which was classified as low.

In a communiqué issued after its conference, the Council also touched on issues such as political instability in West Africa, the impending passage of the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) Bill, tensions in Bawku in the Upper East Region and the University Teachers Association of Ghana strike.

The communique observed that the Outcome of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections left no one in doubt Ghanaians voted for peace, unity, stability, cohesion and consensus building, especially in ahung Parliament.

It bemoaned the recent confusion in Parliament over the passage of the E-Levy bill had exposed extreme partisanship and lack of consensus building between the Executive and the Legislature and between leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament.

It appealed to both political parties to use dialogue and consensus building in decisions in the interest of collective will of citizens whom they sought to serve, increasing cases of corruption and mismanagement of public funds as revealed by the 2020 Auditor General’s Report on Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies and some State Organisations and Enterprises. 

“While Ghanaians are being called upon to pay more taxes to facilitate development, we have public officers embezzling, misapplying and misappropriating public funds through various corrupt activities causing the state to lose billions of Ghana Cedis, with most culprits going unpunished over the years.

“We call on the OSP to take keen interest in the reports of the Auditor General to save the country from the brink of social upheavals as we reaffirm our strong belief in the citizenry through the Church of Jesus Christ, to rise once again to challenges of nation building, eschew all forms of negative attitudes that draw back national progress, growth and development but instilling in us sense of patriotism,” the communique implored.