The fight against corruption calls for constant vigilance on the part of all duty bearers if the social and economic canker is to be at least minimised to tolerable levels if not completely rooted out from the Ghanaian society. It has been said times without number that the underdevelopment confronting many African countries is attributable to corruption in high places. Thus any move or attempt to ensure transparency in any state's undertaking is most welcomed.
It is against this background that Public Agenda wholly agrees to the call by the Civil Society Platform on oil and Gas (CSPOG) that Dr George Sipa Yankey, the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC), must resign his position over alleged fraud in respect of the construction of a gas processing plant in the Western Region and pave way for investigations into the matter to take place.
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