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Integrate West African transport systems, banker says
The governor of the Bank of Ghana, Kwabena Duffour,
on Monday urged ECOWAS countries to combine their resources
and improve the transportation network in the subregion
so as to increase trade and collaboration between them,
Ghana News Agency (GNA) reported.
"An examination of the transport sector suggest
that opportunities exist for co-operation and integration
by ECOWAS countries to reap maximum benefits,"
Duffour said in a speech read out on his behalf at
a course on 'Infrastructure Development and Privatisation'
organised by the West African Institute for Financial
and Economic Management.
"For instance it is common knowledge that air travel
is undertaken with great difficulties and uncertainty
owing largely to inadequate operation aircraft and
poor management," he said.
"It is regrettable that well over two decades of integration efforts have not yielded a scheduled maritime transportation service on the West Coast to ease cargo movement among the countries," Duffour added.
Women Demonstrate Against Murders
Hundreds of women, including First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and the Federation of International Women Lawyers (FIDA), demonstrated in Accra on Wednesday against a spate of murders against women in recent months, news organisations reported.
Women have been the victims of 18 unsolved murders in the Ghanaian capital in the last 18 months.
Moreover, 215 rape cases have been reported in Ghana since the first half of the year, according to the 'Independent', a local newspaper.
Anti-corruption commission wants powers of enforcement
Ghana's Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has no power to enforce its findings and this limits its ability to curb corruption, Ghana News Agency (GNA) quotes CHRAJ's chief investigative officer, Ken Attafuah, as saying.
Speaking on Monday at a round table discussion in Accra on "issues of corruption and economic development", he said depoliticising the office of the Attorney General by separating it from the Ministry of Justice or granting CHRAJ the power to prosecute would enable the state to fight corruption better.
Attafuah said anti-corruption laws had not had much
effect because of poor enforcement and he called on
civil society to step up its campaign against corruption.
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