Ghana: Let's Make Ghana's Leaders Explain Their Unexplained Wealth. Here's How.

5 February 2020
analysis

Despite being perceived to be one of Africa's less corrupt nations, Ghana faces an uphill battle in the fight against graft. The country loses about $3 billion to corruption each year, while both its main political parties - the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) - have been implicated in major scandals while in office. The country has long struggled to deal with high-level corruption.

A new measure proposed by Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu this January, however, could change the playing field. He called on Ghana to adopt Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs), a measure that would place the burden of proof on individuals to explain the sources of their wealth. Those who cannot do so satisfactorily would face prosecution.

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