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Former Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing during the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, Hon. Hackman Owusu Agyemang, has advised government to treat the recent reports on corruption as a national security threat and take immediate steps to deal with the problem. He decried Ghana�s recent rating by Gallup as the World�s most third corrupt country and called for concerted efforts to uproot the canker. According to many recent reports including that of a foreign based research organization called Gallup, corruption in Ghana has become widespread. In view of this worrying development that has caught public attention, the former Member of Parliament for New Juaben North in the eastern region challenged government to show enough commitment in the area of fighting corruption. Hon. Agyemang debunked the widespread misconception that politicians are the most corrupt people in the country. �As far as the nation is concerned, people say politicians; I tell you is not the politicians who are the most corrupt, it is the civil servants, and I want to challenge them anywhere; they are the ones who put the things together and they come to tell you ABCD". He thus admonished civil servants to be patriotic in the discharge of their duties saying, �Slowly it will catch up with all of us and those of us in the society who have been so unpatriotic and want to exploit the masses; some of them come as a result of genuine mistakes and some of them are also deliberate.�