CDD survey may have understated corruption percentage, it should have been 80%- Edudzi Tamakloe 

A legal team member of the NDC, Edudzi Tamakloe says the CDD survey may have understated corruption perception percentage under the Akufo-Addo government.

According to him, due to the various corrupt activities ongoing under the current government, the percentage should have been 80% as against the 62% captured by the survey.

He explained on TV3 that the Auditor General report also clearly stated the corruption at the various government institutions.

Edudzi Tamakloe said there is a direct link between corruption and development and unemployment. 

He believes that if corruption issues are tackled head-on most of our development and unemployment issues would have been addressed.

Background

A nationwide survey conducted by the governance think tank, Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), suggests many Ghanaians do not trust anti-graft efforts under Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration.
In a series of questions to understand citizens’ evaluation of government’s services delivery, the majority of the 2,400 people sampled for the survey said they were less optimistic about the government’s ability to fight corruption, and its ability to promote collaboration between the ruling and opposition parties.

“While Ghanaians are split in their opinion on the government’s ability to ensure that rule of law is upheld, majority however are not confident in the ability of the Nana Addo led-NPP government to protect the country’s financial resources and curb corruption in the next 4 years,” the report explained aspects of its findings.

On Nana Akufo-Addo’s many policies, the report found that the 2,400 people sampled from all 16 regions of the country are nearly equally split in their confidence in government’s ability to consolidate the gains made in the Planting/Rearing For Food And Job programmes in the next four years.

The majority of respondents, however, expressed lack of confidence in the government’s ability to expand the One Million Dollar Per Constituency initiative.

The survey adopted face-to-face interviews for all the sample drawn from the urban and rural areas across all 16 regions.