Law on financial loss is underutilised — Justice Appau

Upholding the law on causing financial loss to the state is one sure way of stemming financial loss to the state, Mr Justice Yaw Appau, Sole Commissioner of the Judgement Debt Commission, has said.

He noted that although arguments had been advanced on why the law must be shelved, they sounded romantic yet were "like fetching water with a cane basket that will not hold water."

Justice Appau was delivering the keynote address at the 30th Management Day Celebration lecture of the University of Ghana Business School, Legon, yesterday. It was on the theme: "Accountability and Corruption: Building the Integrity of Ghanaian Public Institutions."

Speaking on the topic "Promoting Public Sector Accountability in Ghana", he said “a lot of noise was made when the offence of causing financial loss to the state [as indicated in] Section 179 (A), 3(A) of Act 29 (60) was invoked in the Quality Grain case that saw two former ministers of state going to jail, with some people