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The Kassena Nankana East District Oversight Committee of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), on Friday ranked the Ghana Police Service as the most corrupt institution, followed by the Ghana Education Service (GES). A validated research finding on Democracy and Good Governance, Economic Governance and Management and Corporate Governance in the district ranked the police 50 per cent on the corruption index and the GES 11 per cent, followed by the Ghana Health Service with 10 per cent. Touching on access to justice, about 55 per cent respondents said although justice was accessible to the people, some decisions by the judiciary were unfair. On the educational front, 67 per cent agreed that there has been improvement to education but 51 indicated that the delivering of quality education was very low. The finding also revealed that majority of people now has the ability to express themselves freely as compared to the past, but more men had the opportunity to do so than their women counterparts. The report acknowledged that there has been some improvement in security matters at the district, especially with regards to arm robbery and access to electricity. The Executive Secretary of the Governing Council of the National APRM, Dr Francis Appiah who addressed members of the committee, pointed out that Ghana was the pace setter of development in Africa due to good governance, which is in adherence to the APRM. He indicated that Ghana had overtaken some pioneer countries of the APRM.