Togo reaffirms zero-tolerance policy against corruption

Economic governance
Friday, 18 January 2019 16:05
Togo reaffirms zero-tolerance policy against corruption

(Togo First) - On Thursday January 17, 2019, the Higher Authority for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption and Related Offences (HAPLUCIA) organized an anti-corruption sensitization campaign targeting Togolese private sector actors.

The campaign whose theme was “Contribution of citizens in the fight against corruption and related offences”, aimed at reaffirming Togo’s zero tolerance policy in terms of corruption.

The HAPLUCIA plans, according to its president, to use the private sector as a vector to tackle this plague. Often, he says, “it is believed that if the corrupted individual is a public officer, the one corrupting is in the private sector”.

Ending corruption, he also emphasized, aims at “protecting the whole economy, including the private sector”.

According to the minister of trade and promotion of private sector, Togo’s anti-corruption strategy led the government “over the past decade, to create various institutions such as the general inspectorate general of finances, the inspectorate general of the treasury, the court of accounts and the Togolese revenue office”. The minister added that “multiple efforts are being made to enable the private sector to significantly contribute to job creation, economic growth, poverty reduction and national development”.

Created in July 2015, the HAPLUCIA’s purpose is to reduce corruption in Togo, facilitate related complaints, protect whistleblowers and ensure the respect of the presumption of innocence.

Ayi Renaud Dossavi

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