Perception of Corruption better under NDC gov’t – NDC

The opposition NDC has said, in tandem with Transparency International‘s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), the public perception of corruption was generally better under the NDC government than the NPP.

Transparency International revealed in its latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) that Ghana has recorded its worst performance in the last six years in its fight against corruption.

The report which was released Wednesday, February 21, 2018, showed that Ghana has dropped three points from its 2016 score of 43 to 40 in 2017 and ranked 81 out of the total of 180 countries.

The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of zero (being highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

As reported by Prime news, the NPP government after the release of CPI has attributed the drop in the ratings to acts of corruption under the erstwhile John Mahama-led NDC administration.

President Nana Akufo-Addo stated that the poor score by Ghana in the latest index by Transparency International is as a result of corruption cases in the previous government.

In a speech at the swearing-in ceremony of Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu on Friday, 23 February 2018 at the Flagstaff House, Mr Akufo-Addo said: “The recent publication of Ghana’s score in the 2017 Corruption Perception Index, organised by Transparency International, showing a further drop in our standing, a result largely based on “the plethora of corruption allegations/exposés” before the onset of this administration, indicates the enormity of the task ahead. It is noteworthy that its local chapter, Ghana Integrity Initiative, in commenting on the report, has acknowledged that “digitization is changing the ways we communicate and how we do business, and as a result reduced the corruption rate in Ghana.”

However, addressing a press conference today February 27 2018 in Accra, the NDC General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia, stated emphatically that, since 1998, when Transparency International began ranking Ghana, the country’s best ever performance on the CPI was recorded under the NDC government led by John Mahama in 2014 when Ghana obtained a score of 48 percent.

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He added that Ghana's worst performance was recorded in 1999, 2002, 2003 under President Jerry Rawlings and President John Kufuor respectively when Ghana scored 33%.

primenewsghana.com/Ghana News