The Transparency International Ghana has Organized a one day workshop for CSO’s and the Media on Strengthening The Rule of Law and the Fight against Corruption in Ghana .
The Executive Director of Transparency International Ghana Madam Mary Awelena Addah speaking to Yagbon News after the program, stated that they are in the Savannah region to train CSO’s and the Media on issues around Corruption and the Gender forms of it.
With support from the GIZ through the EU, the BMZ and EOCO is implementing a project called PAIReD and it seeks to strengthen governance in Ghana.
As Anti corruption crusaders it is important that they bring on board everyone and their partners are the CSO’s and the Media who would be better crusaders in the various Districts that PAIReD is engaging in and the are 60 Districts, 5 In the Savannah region.
So we are meeting you to engage you on the need to promote accountability on the need to enhance in our communities and on the need to mobilize the base to ensure that we are demanding transparency and also holding the public officers to account per the stewardship they are rendering to us, and the see continuesly that the fight against corruption has not been as successful as we want it to be.
Madam Mary added that this is just one of the first training which is focusing on the various legal frameworks and explaining the basics around Corruption and why we must be involved and also focusing on the subject matter of gender dimension of corruption and how corruption and gender relate, do they have any relationship and even how we perpetrated them as individuals in our communities and how can we as individuals, CSO’s and the Media help support the course.
We bring this issues up to redress them and then as well to look at what we call sexual extortion(Sextortion) and how is it perpetrated and how we can open up avanues for reporting to ensure that people who engage in corruption are exposed and we have redressed of victims who are suffering from this in the public sector, in private places, In our Churches and IN our Schools and everywhere IN our communities.
Madam Mary Answering a question on Sextortion, she started categorically that it’s not about the Youth given them selves out but its about power imbalance and that power imbalance result in the powerless suffering.
How ever we have situation where it could affect discipline in the workplace because anyone who suffers this will then also decide to behave the way the want and which could promote absenteeism, in discipline and general work apatty because they say that the boss is doing this and it means everybody does what they want.
Again we are saying that for us we see it affecting those who experience it not just women we have men who also experience Sextortion, and the stigma makes people silents and so the stress could generate health issues and for us we think that, that is the reason why we should talk about it.
Exploitation is unfortunate because the person has their rights, Constitutionally enshrined to have jobs and so that means that if I do not give you myself out I will not get a job.
It is wrong culturally and so that stigma of doing it and not doing it willingly also affects the emotional well-being and phycological well-being of any individual who is suffering that.
Source: Diwura Abdul Fataw
