Ghana has recorded its worst performance in the last six years in its fight against corruption, the latest corruption perception index (CPI) has revealed.
The country dropped three points from its 2016 score of 43 to 40 in 2017 and ranked 81 out of the total of 180 countries.
Cumulatively, Ghana has dropped eight points since 2016, the CPI which was released Wednesday, February 21 by Transparency International showed.The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of zero (being highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Linda Ofori- Kwafo, said Ghana’s poor score in 2017 is a reflection of inadequate investigations, prosecutions and sanctioning of corrupt officials.
Presenting the report, she said Ghana performed “not too good”.
“Since the CPI became comparable from the period 2012 to now, this is the worst performance that Ghana has had. This year, 2017CPI, we are saying Ghana’s performance from 2012 is the worst so far,” Mrs Ofori-Kwafo indicated.
She was however optimistic the situation could improve in the next three years by which time the various government interventions put in place to check corruption in the public sector would have started yielding results.
The newly created Office of the Special Prosecutor, the paperless port system and the Ghana Post digital addressing system were some of the initiatives she observed could help Ghana shore up its ranking
“When we are able to get the gains of the new initiatives; the paperless port, the digital addressing system and the powers of the Auditor General to do the disallowance and surcharging and then office of the special prosecutor that has come on board…if all these initiatives work very well for us, we’re hoping that in a year, two years, three years to come, we should see a rise in Ghana’s CPI,” she expressed.
Generally, the 2017 CPI showed majority of countries were making little or no progress in ending corruption.
It also showed journalists and activists in corrupt countries were risking their lives daily in an effort to speak out against corruption.
New Zealand and Denmark ranked highest with scores of 89 and 88 respectively while Syria, South Sudan and Somalia rank lowest with scores of 14, 12 and 9 respectively.
Western Europe was identified as the best performing region with an average score of 66 with the worst performing regions being Sub-Saharan Africa (with an average score of 32) and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (with an average score of 34).
Source: 3news.com
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Please this is not the original report. If you read the original report on adomfmonline, it was based on all the corruption allegations under ndc prior to the 2016 general elections. Peacefm just copy from a source that did not produce the original report. If you are reading, try and read very wide to educate yourself.
It is glaring that Akufo-Addo and NPP are more corrupt than NDC government. the report has shown and you cannot deceive us, we see all sorts of corruption in BOST,CASH-FOR-SEAT,PARLIAMENTARY BRIBERY, 2.5 BILLION DOLLARS BOND BY KEN-OFORI ATTA, ETC. YOU CAN TRY TO HIDE IT FROM GHANANIANS BUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS WATCHING, THOSE OF US WHO ARE NOT BLINDED BY CORRUPTION CAN SEE. STOP DECEIVING YOURSELVES AND FACE REALITY. BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR YOU WILL SEE MORE OF CORRUPTIONS AND LAWLESSNESS IN THIS GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE SIMPLY CORRUPT BY NATURE...BY NATURE...BY NATURE
Nana Appiah, Mahama was not president in 2017. Stop your hatred, God despises people who hate their fellow human beings!
Eii NPP don’t let us repeat 2007 corruption index oo! Coming back into opposition in 2020 will not augur well for our families. Nana must do reshuffle and let some of us also enjoy 😉 some. We all struggled to win power. But this Martin Amidu man koraa, will he help us at all? The dream I had last night is a bad omen for our party oo! Nana refuse to swear him in because I saw him turning against you so dramatically that the whole nation was shocked but the harm had already been caused. I saw in the dream that JJ Rawlings was the winner of all. Hmmm Nana listen to Kenedy Agyapong before you regret oo. The only remedy now is to pray that the Supreme Court will annul the nomination and vetting. We are selling our party to Rawlings
MAHAMA THE RECORD BREAKER.INCOMPETENT MAN LIKE YOU.