Ghana To Host Summit On Corruption In September

ACCRA, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana will in September host a summit of African heads of state and governments to ratify the principles agreed on at the Conference on Collaborative Framework to Address Corruption held in Washington last year.

The twenty-five principles are aimed at combating corruption in Africa, Brian Anko Sapati, acting executive director of the Serious Fraud Office, told Ghana News Agency in Accra Wednesday.

He said the Global Coalition for Africa and its partners will be sponsors of the conference. The exact date is yet to be fixed.

Sapati said the principles are to be adopted into a convention similar to those of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Organisation of American States.

He expressed the hope that the summit would create a common platform to arrest corrupt practices all over the continent in view of the cross-border nature of crimes committed these days.

"This will eliminate the problem of non-co-operation by some states due to differences in criminal law procedures," he added.