BRIBERY SCANDAL ROCKS TAMALE METROPOLIS

BRIBERY SCANDAL ROCKS TAMALE METROPOLIS
Bribery and corruption has gain plunks in the center stage of both private and public services from the former to the latter in the country.
As Politicians engage in baby dippers and pampers, the civil servants are also strict in the little that they extort from people who fall prey in their offices.
It should not be of surprised that the secret visuals of the famous investigative Journalist Anas Aremiyaw Anas revealed the bribery and corruption standards of the Custom Exercise and Preventive Service (CEPS) and the cocoa smuggling at the Aflao boarder.
Reputable information gathered by Fiila News alleged that the Metropolitan inspection guards are extorting monies from Hawkers along pedestrian lanes with the pretext of allowing them to transact on the pavement.
Speaking in anonymity, an inspection guard in the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly said their former normally goes round to take monies from the hawkers assuring them their safety and permanent stay on the pedestrian’s lanes.
A situation he says makes their work very intricate when they are embarking on demolishing exercises.
Some hawkers along the Aboaboo-Amal Bank pedestrian lanes confirmed the allegation. According to the hawkers they will only move away from the lanes provided the get a place where they can get access to their customers.
They hawkers however called on the assembly to investigate the issue. But in an exclusive interview with Issah Musah, the public affairs Director of the Metropolitan Assembly, deprecated the allegation saying, the giver of bribe is as guilty as the receiver.
He urged the hawkers to report cases of bribery to the assembly with factual evidence.