The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has accused the Akufo-Addo government of trying to shift blame for a poor corruption perception record on the previous government.
According to him, the government must take responsibility for the country’s poor performance in the recent corruption perception index report put together by the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the local arm of Transparency International.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Asiedu Nketia challenged claims by some government communicators that the report took into account happenings within the erstwhile NDC government, noting that of the nine data sources used for the report, only two were from 2016, under the NDC government.
He said the NPP government however “inexplicably decided to play unwholesome politics with a matter as serious as this, and did the unthinkable by blaming the past NDC government for the country’s catastrophic decline in the survey.”
“The Akufo-Addo government promptly deployed a phalanx of spokespersons to churn out a most illogical and implausible spin, that events which took place three or four years earlier account for the horrible 2017 CPI [Corruption Perception Index] results.”
“According to these government spokespersons, the erstwhile NDC administration is to blame… It is either the president has not apprised himself of the CPI report or he is a conspirator in an effort to deliberately mislead the public,” he said.
“It is a matter of public knowledge that the CPI for 2017 was provided from nine data sources. Only two or 22% out of these are traceable to 2016. The remaining seven or 88% emanated from 2017. This means that an overwhelming majority of data sources used in this survey were based on happenings in the first year of President Akufo-Addo,” he added.
Asiedu Nketia argued that the party’s analysis of the report over the past 20 years showed that Ghana’s best performance in the CPI was under the NDC with John Mahama as president in 2014.
‘Corruption ranking covered Mahama administration’
The government in reaction to the report explained that Ghana’s poor performance took into account corruption cases recorded under the John Mahama administration, which left power in January 2017.
Hebert Krapa, the government’s Spokesperson on Governance and Legal Affairs
The government’s Spokesperson on Governance and Legal Affairs, Herbert Krapa, explained that the report was not an indication that the current New Patriotic Party [NPP] government was corrupt.
‘Rot in Akufo-Addo gov’t’
But the minority in Parliament insisted that Ghana’s ranking is a vindication of their position that the current government is presiding over a corrupt administration.
Minority Spokesperson on Communications, A.B.A. Fuseini
Speaking to Citi News, the Minority Spokesperson on Communications, A.B.A. Fuseini, said the drop in Ghana’s ranking on the Index proves that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is unwilling to fight the canker.
Source: citifmonline.com
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NPP SHOULD ACCEPT THIS FAILURE AND WORK HARD TO REDEEM THE NATION FROM THIS EMBARASSMENT SO THAT WHEN THE GLORY COMES NDC SHALL NOT BE PARTAKERS. FOR NOW THEY SAY IT IS ONLY NPP THAT CAUSED THAT TO HAPPEN, FOLKS LET ACCEPT IT AND WORK HARD TO REDEEM OUR NATION. I KNOW WHEN GHANA IS WELL RATED TOMORROW NDC WILL NOT COME AND SAY ANYTHING BUT RATHER CONGRATULATE US
THE GHC50 BILLION DONATION TO NPP BY THE NANA AKUFO-ADDO FOR THEIR (NPP) EXTRA ORDINARY CONFERENCE IN CAPE COAST ALONE IS TOO HUGE AN AMOUNT TO WARRANT THE LOW RATING IN THE CPI FOR 2017. WHERE ARE THE SO CALLED MEN OF GOD WHO HAD W*IDE AND L*OUD MOUTHS TO SHOUT CORRUPTION IN 2016 TO TELL US THEIR FEELINGS NOW. DO UNTO OTHERS WHAT YOU WANT OTHERS TO DO UNTO YOU.I AM GRADUALLY LOSING FAITH IN CHRISTIANITY AND THINKING OF JOINING ISLAM BECAUSE THESE SO CALLED MEN OF GOD ARE DISAPPOINTING ME BADLY.
Perception, I know about reality and Ghana is witnessing true fantastic reality on the corruption front. Two great Mahama NDC ***barred word*** are enjoying some good moons in Nsawam as we speak, with the NDC party in a very deranged and unbelievable manner, making a categorical, factual statement, that should they win power in 2020, the Mahama NDC ***barred word*** who stole Ghana and are now taking their rest in the cooler, will all be released in this country. The sheer utter irresponsibility of the statement, coming from a sitting Member of the House of Parliament and representing the Odododiodoo Constituency on the ticket of the NDC, indeed, pushed the Founder of the NDC party, to state emphatically, the Mahama NDC party of ***barred word*** will stay in opposition for a very long time in this country. This is not a perception but the reality of the scale of corruption which the NPP party under the able leadership of the Akufo Ado NPP gov't is confronted with, and has taken some of the most far-reaching steps to see to it's obliteration in Ghana, in keeping with the AU position and priority of stamping out corruption, on the continent of Africa, by appointing a special prosecutor, a first ever, since Ghana gained independence in 1957 to deal with corruption. Clearly the desperate NDC party full to the brim with ***barred word***, is seeking a hole to run into with this perception, in the face of the reality of their ***barred word*** being confronted by Ghana and Ghanaians. The unattractive NDC political party organization further shows their desperation when they latch onto this perception when the logical, reasonable and intelligent thing for a party which has governed this country for almost 3 decades at various times, would be to find their way to court, to seek conviction of those who they claim account for the poor showing in the corruption ranking, as according to their thinking, perception is reality. What a pathetic party of desperate ***barred word*** they are.
A survey done in 2016 and u blame it on NPP ah Was bus branding done under NPP ah