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Anti-corruption campaigner, Hon. PC Appiah Ofori has said government�s plans of establishing public complaints units to fight corruption will not yield any results. President John Mahama at this year�s Eid-ul Adha celebration at the Independence Square in Accra announced the government�s decision to set up the public complaint centres expected to be functional in 2014. According to President Mahama, the public complaint centres will receive complaints from the general public about corruption and poor service delivery in any public sector. But the former Member of Parliament for Asikuma-Odoben Brakwa, Hon. PC Appiah Ofori is of the view that the system will not work. �The implementation will not yield any results because in the past there were similar institutions like the Serious Fraud Office and nothing came out of it.� He insisted the government should not waste scarce public resources in establishing such centres saying, �The people who are engaged to man the offices are those who fail to do the right thing for the benefit of the society.� Hon. PC Appiah Ofori recalled that during the Kufuor led NPP administration similar anti-corruption institutions were set up and they failed to deliver. �Institutions they are in the right direction but when it comes to implementation of the programme it will not be successful because the people who will be engaged will not be loyal to the President.�