Pervasive corruption is killing Ghana, the Paramount Chief of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, Okyehene Amoatia Ofori Panin II has said.

Quoting “illustrious Ghanaian” William Ofori-Atta, the President of the Eastern regional house of chiefs said Saturday that: “It takes courage and character to live in honest poverty while you watch your friends get rich by fraud.”

“Maybe those who dip their hands in the public till and deny beds and doctors at Korle Bu should hear this. Maybe those who are poor and don’t have access to quality education because somebody has taken their money should hear this,” the paramount chief said at the second golf awards ceremony in Accra.

He said there is the need for great discipline on the part of people to stop run from the temptation of getting corrupt, adding that there is more joy in genuine achievements than ill-gotten riches.

“So when you have homes built in East Legon and you know that you didn’t earn the money, you didn’t make the right investment, you didn’t sell the right commodity, you didn’t pay your taxes and then you two homes because you were involved in this acquisition of material wealth without any consequences to the rest of society, you should not feel good,” the traditional leader said.