THE Chief Executive Officer of the Corruption and Fraud Audit Consortium (CAFAC), Mr Hector O. Boham, has called on the media to get seriously involved in the fight against fraud and corruption.
He said corruption and fraud were enemies to development and therefore the media should use their platforms to fight against them.
Mr Boham said the media could do so by dedicating a column in the newspapers, weekly radio and television programmes to discuss fraud and corruption issues.
He was speaking at the launch of the CAFAC, an institution to enrol graduates and train them to become experts in auditing and fraud detection in Accra.
The CAFAC aims at training and educating graduates to specialise in auditing with the view to curbing corruption and fraud in the country.
Mr Boham said advocacy to fight corruption was not enough, hence the need to get people committed to eradicating corruption and fraud which were enemies to development.
He noted that the year-long programme aimed at producing hundred students every year is to have a number of committed students in the system that would ensure accurate auditing and fraud detection.
He said with courses such as fraud prevention and deterrence, financial transactions, fraud investigations and legal elements of fraud, graduates would gain a Certified Fraud Examiner certificate, while with courses such as process of auditing information systems, governance and management of IT, protection of assets, a graduate would become a Certified Information Systems Auditor.
Other courses, he said, included oil and gas operations, oil and gas law and financial reporting audit. He outlined ways which would help curb corruption and fraud. It included the active involvement of intellectuals through the teaching of the courses, the use of research to study the nature of corruption and fraud.
“By researching, the nature, methods, extent of damage and the types of engagements in fraud and corruption would be detected” he said.
He stressed the need for expertise in auditing to easily detect fraud or corruption at any instance.
He urged graduates and professionals to consider the CAFAC training programmes to competently succeed in their areas of specialisation.
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