The erstwhile Mahama led administration must be blamed for Ghana’s worsening corruption perception as captured in a report by the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) according to Government.
Government Spokesperson on Governance and Legal Affairs, Herbert Krapa said the embarrassing report is as a result of corruption scandals that plagued the Mahama administration.
He indicated that the scandals that may have formed the basis for the worsening corruption perception happened before the Akufo-Addo government took over power in 2017.
“Where else would they be taking their data from other than instances like bus branding, payment to Ghana Standard Authority kickback?”.
He said respondents used in the nine surveys collated to prepare the 2017 CPI would have used issues of corruption under the previous administration adding that “the result of what has happened between 2015 and 2017 put in their proper context”.
The latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released Wednesday by the local chapter of Transparency International, the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), scored Ghana 40 out of a possible clean score of 100.
Ranking the country 81 out of 180 countries assessed, the index shows that Ghana’s performance has dropped by three points from its 2016 score of 43.
Ghana has also lost seven points cumulatively from the 2015 score of 47.
The damning conclusion shows that the country’s 2017 performance is the worst since 2012 which were collated using two surveys conducted in 2016 and seven surveys conducted in 2017, the first year of the Akufo-Addo government.
