To achieve this, she said, the government would establish a State Assets Registry to effectively protect state assets, setting up an inquiry into looted state lands.

The government, she indicated, would also be conducting a foren­sic audit and an inquiry into the National Cathedral scandal, and enacting the Conduct of Public Officers Bill into law.

The Deputy Chief of Staff was speaking at the launch of the Final Evaluation Report of the Nation­al Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) in Accra, on Friday.

The 10-year anti-corruption strategic plan was implemented between 2015 and 2024 with key objectives of building public capacity to condemn and fight corruption, make it a high risk, and low-gain venture.

It is also to institutionalise effi­ciency, accountability and trans­parency in the public, private and not-for profit sectors by engaging individuals, media and Civil Society Organisations to report to aid combat corruption and its related matters.

Nana Oye Bampoe Addo further expressed disappointment with Ghana’s slow progress in fighting corruption, despite a decade-long effort with NACAP.

“Over the past three years, Ghana’s Corrup­tion Perception Index has shown little improvement, highlighting the persistent challenges in the fight against corruption in 2022 and 2023, the country maintained a CPI score of 43, indicating a stagnation in anti-corruption efforts,” she elaborated.

However, she stated that, last year, the score dropped slightly to 42, signalling a decline in public trust regarding transparency and accountability.

The Deputy Chief of Staff un­derscored that other recent surveys on corruption by institutions such as Transparency International, the Centre for Democratic Develop­ment, Ghana (CDD) Afro-ba­rometer Reports and the Ghana Statistical Service, showed the lack of progress in the fight against corruption.

“All these surveys have shown that corruption remains a big chal­lenge in Ghana even after several years of implementing NACAP, and this Report has not given us a clean slate on the fight against corruption in Ghana,” she noted.

Nana Oye Bampoe Addo again pledged the government’s com­mitment to the implementation of a NACAP Il, to ensure that the corruption and its related matters were dealt with.

The Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Dr Joseph Whittal, said government adopted NACAP a decade ago due to the immense growing public concern about the scale of corruption and its impact on society.

He added that NACAP was conceived as a comprehensive strategy transcending political barriers to drive anti-corruption ac­tivities to promote and mainstream the values of integrity, transparen­cy and accountability in all sectors of society, and ensure effective enforcement of anti-corruption laws in the country.