Superintendent George Kwakye, the Wenchi District Police Commander has urged Ghanaians to leverage the Whistleblower’s Act and report crimes, wrongdoings and corruption-related offences to the police.
He said the Whistleblower Act, 2006 (Act 720) provided full protection for informants who reported misconduct, corruption-related and other offences.
Supt. Kwakye gave the advice at a public education campaign on corruption at Wenchi in the Bono Region, organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and attended by women groups.
The campaign was in line with the implementation of the NCCE’s project dubbed “Civic Engagement on the Rule of Law and the Fight Against Corruption,” co-funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the European Union.
Supt. Kwakye said every citizen had a role to play in the nationwide fight against corruption and urged everybody to support the fight by using the appropriate channels to report unethical practices.
He noted that many people were afraid to speak out, and that fear was damaging to society, but if citizens began to raise their voices against wrongdoings, it would foster accountability, so speaking out was always better than remaining silent.

Mr Emmanuel Kwame Sei, the Registrar at the Wenchi Municipal Office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) noted that corruption was not limited to public officials alone, saying individuals in the informal sector also engaged in corrupt practices.
He cited that it was wrong for shop owners and entrepreneurs to fail to pay their appropriate rents and taxes.
Mr Sei also took the participants through the Domestic Violence Act, 2007, Act 732, explaining that law tackled forms of abuse of physical, emotional and verbal, as well as economic and financial and sexual abuses.
He urged the community members to endeavour to report all forms of abuses that went on in their respective communities to the CHRAJ and other appropriate authorities, saying every citizen had the right to live free from oppression.