Sentences with phrase «up on corruption»

Any politician and we do mean ANY politician, that champions this scheme should be drummed out of office, or brought up on corruption charges, or impeached.

Deputy Chief of Staff, Samuel Abu Jinapor last Friday opened up on the corruption allegation currently generating debate in the country on Accra - based radio station Joy FM.

Not exact matches

In the run - up to the December 2 invitation, NATO repeatedly stressed that any offer hinged on Podgorica making further progress on reforms to curb corruption.

Reconstruction here has been held up by bureaucracy and corruption, while billions of euros were spent on unpopular housing projects, or «new towns», with rows of identical dwellings built on special quake - proof platforms.

Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC:

In the run - up to the 19th Party Congress, party watchers speculated that Wang Qishan, the head of the party's corruption investigation division, would be kept on the seven - member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) even though he was 69, past the conventional retirement age.

Ukraine can take the lead on fighting corruption by picking up the Irish initiative in 2013 and appointing top international experts to supply guidance as well as by inviting these experts to take on corruption in Ukraine itself as a first - order challenge.

Honestly, I'm not sure why most of them stick around with the rampant corruption and lack of morals that's gone on in that church forever (and continues to be allowed and covered up).

I think parents tend to expect too much and lean too hard on the safety of the walls they build to insulate their children so that they can grow up without corruption creeping into their little lives.

Corruption and impunity have become accepted convention in the administration, nepotism is eating the administration up yet, some members of OccupyGhana and other civil society organisations are helping the administration to play the blame game on the past Mahama administration as a coverup for the administration's failure which is betrayal of what these groups and their mother organization the Npp promised Ghanaians during the campaign.

If this already compromised Moreland Commission on Corruption is not willing to investigate the second highest elected official in the executive branch for what appears to be a clear violations of the ethics laws, they should pack up and go home.»

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

The WIPF, made up of women leaders from 26 registered political parties led by Ebere Ifendu of the Labour Party expressed their full support for the government's war on corruption and insecurity.

Morano happened to catch up with Bruno, who is awaiting his second trial on federal corruption charges, the same day news broke about Assemblyman Vito Lopez's sexual harassment scandal.

On the question of how he would be dealing with allegations of corruption against members of his own government, President Akufo - Addo answered, «I have made it publicly known that anyone who has information about acts of corruption against any of my appointees should bring it forward and should be prepared to back it up with evidence.»

Espada has repeatedly accused Cuomo of targeting him in a political «witch hunt» in order to boost his own credentials as a erformer — a reputation on which he rode to the governor's office in 2010 while pledging to clean up the infamously dysfunctional and corruption - ridden state Capitol.

In conversation with a young person recently, I mentioned that Washington, DC, had a lot of corruption when I lived there, e.g. if you couldn't get a building permit on the up and up, you could get...

Okudzeto Ablakwa also questioned why I had not followed up on my previous assertions that Anas Amereyaw Anas was a covert government agent whom the Mahama government had instructed to suppress his parliamentary corruption investigative video clip in order to reduce the public confidence only in the judiciary.

«There's no way that you have a system such as ours that has consistently thrive on corruption and proceeds of corruption and public financing in particular, that will give up and say guys, the problem has been solved.

And Cuomo, who still hasn't told the public about what he knew of Silver's and Skelos» illegal activities as he shuttered the doors on the corruption - fighting Moreland Commission, is clearly the runner - up as Loser of the Year — with talk increasing that he'll face a challenge in the Democratic primary should he seek re-election in 2018.

While the race to challenge City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) was already crowded on the Democratic side, a member of his own party has stepped up for a spot on the ballot now that the lawmaker faces federal corruption charges.

First up on Jan. 22 is the trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, and others related to alleged corruption and bribery in connection with Cuomo's economic development efforts.

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

He replaced 16 - year incumbent Thomas Spota, who stepped down last month after he and his top corruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, were indicted on federal charges that they were involved in a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.

We caught up with Joe Percoco this afternoon as he departed from his federal corruption trial on a small bit of good news for him.

Anti-Corruption prosecutors confirm working on criminal file drawn up on media - revealed corruption charges

Corruption scandals may have hurt that prospect, but the truth is Republicans will soon show up on the indicted list.

The roundtable will assess the on - going fight against corruption, and is expected to come up with key programme agenda for among others mobilising Nigerians to get involved in the fight against corruption, and agenda for increasing the tempo of the anti-corruption fight including by revisiting outstanding cases of high - level official corruption and prosecuting high - ranking public officials.

«Today's ruling is proof that we can not rely solely on federal prosecutors to clean up our state's corruption,» Kaminsky added.

«Four years ago, Andrew Cuomo stood on the steps of a courthouse named after Boss Tweed and promised to clean up corruption in New York State.

«The jig is up on Cuomo's corruption and failed administration,» said state GOP spokeswoman Jessica Proud.

The voting wrapped up a session clouded by federal investigations into corruption and the sentencing of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) to federal prison on bribery and extortion charges.

Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has opened up on the campaign against corruption, stressing that the Federal Government's approach to the fight was defective and yet to produce any serious conviction after three years.

Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has opened up on the campaign against corruption, stressing that the Federal Government's approach to the...

He set up a commission to investigate public corruption and used it to get lawmakers to pass ethics reform, then abruptly shut it down when the commission turned its sights on the governor's office.

«I have decided to seek re-election in the House so that I may continue my mission to clean up the VA, where my position as Chairman of the House Veterans Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee has allowed me to shine a light on the culture of bureaucratic incompetence and corruption,» Coffman said in a prepared statement obtained by the Post.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke), and Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I - Schoharie) today called for a «Spirit of «76» revolt by rank and file state legislators to clean up corruption and break the stranglehold on the Capitol that's been exerted by powerful leaders who time after time have prevented common sense reforms from becoming law in New York.

News reports indicate that the staffer was eventually fired for so - called performance issues and that supposedly the allegations did not involve Avella directly but rather «management staff» but given Avella's own claims regarding Albany's culture of corruption and predilection to cover things up can we really rely on this?

Reform groups are focusing attention on Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti corruption commission's recommendations to beef up the anemic State Board of Elections but say they have not given up hope of public campaign financing for state wide races.

Though he pledged when he first ran for governor in 2010 to clean up Albany, the pace of legislative corruption scandals has not slowed on Cuomo's watch.

According to him, if such information was true, «that can only be a gargantuan cover up on a matter which is fraudulent and we believe that this action of the BNI can only be sowing the seed of corruption in our country and also allowing and preventing sunshine on matters that are of public interest.»

«There is a very bizarre and uncharacteristic developments in our country today that we are being told that the BNI is acting in a manner that we don't only smell, but we can sense a cover up in respect of the matter of the selling of contaminated oil by BOST which matter bothers on fraud, corruption and abuse of office.

«From January 2018, the EFCC will sponsor up to 20 PhD researchers on any aspect of corruption every year for the next 10 years.

While the governor is clearly going big on infrastructure - with plans that could total $ 100 billion in costs, according to his office - he has promised to lead with ethics as lawmakers continue to fall to corruption convictions, trust in Albany is low, and New Yorkers say Cuomo has not done enough to clean up state government.

Haruna Iddrisu further called on the president to stop such cover ups if he really wants to fight corruption as he had promised during the electioneering.

In February, sources told The Post that the courthouse was under federal investigation over its alleged ties to Silver, who was forced to give up his role as Assembly speaker after being indicted on federal corruption charges.

On Wednesday, Spota and Christopher McPartland, head of the district attorney's political corruption unit, were indicted on unrelated federal charges involving a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 201On Wednesday, Spota and Christopher McPartland, head of the district attorney's political corruption unit, were indicted on unrelated federal charges involving a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 201on unrelated federal charges involving a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.

The appointment of Kutey, a Siena College graduate with a long career in accounting and finance, comes as SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher shakes up SUNY Poly in the wake of the Sept. 22 arrest of the school's founding president, Alain Kaloyeros, on state and federal corruption charges.

With a focus on rooting out corruption in Albany, Senator Jeff Klein, who heads the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, is giving up all of his outside income.

So far, all Anthony Palumbo of New Suffolk and party leaders have offered in the early stages of his campaign is a few sound bites on cleaning up corruption in Albany that sound like they were written by state Republican officials.