A senior political science lecturer at the University of Ghana–Legon, Dr, Asah Asante has stated that former President John Mahama’s performance against corruption is far better than President Akufo-Addo’s performance.
This comes on the back of the Police arresting the group calling itself Democracy Hub which was at the #OccupyJulorbiHouse demonstration The Police had filed an application at the court and successfully served the organizers of a group identifying itself as Democracy Hub in connection with a planned demonstration within the vicinity of the Jubilee House from Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd September 2023.
Commenting on the development of the demonstration, the political science lecturer stated that despite the fact that the current government has taken some steps to fighting corruption, former President Mahama’s administration did better.
“When you look at Transparency International reports on corruption, if you look carefully at what we have done from 2013 the scores are very discouraging. The scores say that the closer you are to zero the more corrupt your country is and the closer you are to a hundred the cleaner your records are.
“The figures for 2013-46 percent, 2014-48, 2025-47, and 2016-43 tell you about Mahama’s era that the highest performance was 48 and the lowest which was closest to zero was in 2016 record 43 percent,” Dr. Asante stated.
He continued: “The score for Nana Akufo-Addo’s government from 2017 is 40 percent, 2019-41, 2020-43, 2021-43, 2022-43percent it tells you that the highest performance under Nana Akufo-Addo’s government is 43 percent that is 2020 to 2022 and the lowest is 40.
“What it tells you is that Mahama’s lowest performance in the chart sheet in the fight against corruption was Nana’s highest. It means corruption is pervasive in the country.”
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Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh
