22/06/2018
Linkage between Records Management and Accountability and Transparency (CorruptGhana
In spite of the significance of records management, studies by scholars internationally suggest that record keeping systems in Africa in general and Ghana in particular have either collapsed or are in a state of disarray. The poor records keeping systems in this country have therefore become a major barrier to development. Successive governments have over the period deliberately or may be ignorantly, failed or rarely see the connection between records management and the prevention of corruption, fraud and maladministration.
Musembi (2005) in one of his works acknowledged that there exists a very close relationship between governance and records keeping and stated that a well-managed records facilitate the achievement of transparency and accountability in public administration.
And according to IRMT and the World Bank (2000) poor records keeping has led to corrupt practices and lack of accountability and poor governance structures in Africa, including Ghana
Further, an International Records Management Consultant and a former head of the Information Studies Department of the University of Ghana Dr. Pino Akotia , with over 35 years’ experience in records and information management explained without mincing words that records are vital to virtually every aspect of the governance process in Ghana and records therefore remain the most reliable information resource available to public financial management and as such they underpin the processes of accountability and transparency.
The question is, our leaders in the governance system, the civil society organisations, the IMANI Ghana, OCCUPY Ghana, the Christian Council, CDD etc. Please help me name them stop pretending to be talking LOUD on corruption and help fix the rot in the system by ensuring that t records and information managements practices and systems in the country is given facelift
May God bless our homeland Ghana
Good morning
Dan Dawuso
22/0618
