The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Asikuma/Odoben/ Abrakwa, Mr Paul Collins Appiah-Ofori, has said he did not seek re-

election to the legislature because he could not use the forum to fight corruption.

He alleged that corruption in the country was becoming worse, saying, “during the NPP time, corruption did not reduce and it has still not reduced with the coming into power of the National Democratic Party (NDC) Government.”

Mr Appiah-Ofori made the assertion in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra, after President Evans Atta Mills had ended his State of the Nation address to Parliament, which was on the theme: “ Still Building A Better Ghana .”

Mr Appiah-Ofori said he had much confidence in President Mills because he advocated anti–corruption but the president had been a deception to Ghanaians.

The MP said: “I feel I am only wasting my time here. If Parliament, which is the tool to lead the fight, has not succeeded, then what am I doing here? I have to leave.”

Mr Appiah-Ofori, who was clad in traditional black mourning cloth just as other NPP MPs, said though he was obliged to assist his constituency in many ways, his main aim of going to Parliament was to fight corruption, which he could not achieve.

 Source;GNA