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CORRUPTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY
The Technical Advisor of GIZ, Dr. Alhaji Aliu Amin, has noted that civil society and the media play a critical role in achieving Public Financial Management through fiscal discipline, strategic allocation of resources, and efficient delivery of services.
He made the remarks at a two-day workshop for journalists in Kumasi.
Channel 247’s Rafiq Nungor Adam was part of the workshop and now Reports
The two-day workshop organized by GIZ and partners brought together over 40 journalists from the northern belt of Ghana, including Bono, Ahafo, Bono East, Upper West, Northern, North East, Savannah, and Upper East Regions, in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
The initiative is part of the Participation, Accountability and Integrity for a Resilient Democracy programme.
The Technical Advisor of GIZ, Dr. Alhaji Aliu Amin, outlined the rationale for the workshop.
He also added that the workshop is not to witch-hunt any duty bearer but to ask the right questions for the marginalized.
The facilitator of the workshop, an economist and finance professor from the University of Ghana, Prof. Geoffrey A. Bokpin, noted that the problem in the country is not because of low revenue mobilization but the inefficiency of resource allocation.
He also noted that without the media being informed, development will be lacking.
Some journalists also shared their thoughts on the workshop.