Code of Conduct: 10 ethical guidelines for President Mahama's appointees

The recently launched Code of Conduct by President John Dramani Mahama spells retired a acceptable of directives meant to foster transparency, dependable enactment and accountability for authorities appointees.

The Code launched connected Monday, May 5, 2025, applies to each ministers, lawman ministers, main executives, and statesmanlike staffers, including the President and Vice-President.

The document, unveiled astatine Jubilee House, establishes legally binding guidelines that appointees indispensable strictly adhere to.

This write-up seeks to item 10 (10) important rules that are intended to service arsenic checks and balances for each authorities appointees.

It is noteworthy to authorities that this directive is not caller to the Mahama-led Government, arsenic a akin codification was instituted during his tenure successful bureau successful 2013.

Here are 10 cardinal directives outlined successful the Code:

1. No acceptance of gifts valued implicit GH¢20,000.00 without declaration

Appointees indispensable not judge gifts oregon favours from individuals oregon businesses who person involvement successful authorities decisions. Resultantly, gifts exceeding GH¢20,000.00 indispensable beryllium declared and tin lone beryllium retained with written statesmanlike permission.

2. Strict prohibition connected buying authorities assets

Political appointees are barred from purchasing authorities properties—land, buildings, vehicles, oregon shares—either straight oregon indirectly. Defaulters of this directive look contiguous dismissal.

3. Declare assets oregon look dismissal

All appointees indispensable state their assets. Those who took bureau earlier March 31, 2025, had until May 7 to comply oregon hazard losing 3 months wage oregon adjacent dismissal.

4. No usage of nationalist funds for gifts oregon hampers

The Code prohibits utilizing nationalist funds, including internally generated funds, to acquisition hampers oregon acquisition items, but humble ones fixed for unit excellence oregon retirement, with anterior approval.

5. Declare conflicts of interest

Appointees indispensable disclose each concern interests, particularly those connected to authorities agencies. They are forbidden from utilizing their positions to payment relatives oregon associates.

6. Ban connected nepotism and power peddling

Using power to unafraid contracts oregon appointments for friends oregon household is not permitted. Even the quality of bias is grounds for investigation.

7. Mandatory reporting of authoritative travels

All authoritative and unofficial overseas travels necessitate anterior support from the Chief of Staff. Appointees indispensable record a study wrong 14 days of returning.

8. Sanctions for breach of code

Offenders look penalties ranging from reprimand and suspension to dismissal. The President made it wide that "there volition beryllium nary ineffable cows."

9. Online reporting strategy for citizens

A integer portal is being established to let citizens to confidentially study suspected breaches, ensuring assemblage oversight.

10. Regular briefings and grooming connected ethics

Appointees volition acquisition periodic ethical grooming and indispensable motion yearly declarations reaffirming their committedness to the Code.

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