Ghana scores low in corruption ranking
Ghana has been ranked 81 out of 180 countries in the latest Corruption Perception Index released on Wednesday.
Ghana scored 40 as against last year’s score of 43 – dropping 11
places in the latest CPI. It is Ghana’s worst performance in the last
six years in its fight against corruption.
The CPI ranks countries annually by their perceived levels of
corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys. It
is prepared by Transparency International. The CPI score indicates the
perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of zero (being
highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
“We have the CPI for 2017 and Ghana performed not too good. Ghana
actually dropped so far as our score is concerned. The most important
thing on the CPI is the score and so on the scale of 0 to 100, Ghana
scored 40 out of 100 points,” the Executive Director of the local
chapter of Transparency International, Ghana Integrity Initiative, Linda
Ofori-Kwafo said.
She said Ghana’s poor score in 2017 is a reflection of inadequate
investigations, prosecutions and sanctioning of corrupt officials.
“Since the CPI became comparable from the period 2012 to now, this is the worst performance that Ghana has had. This year, 2017 CPI, we are saying Ghana’s performance from 2012 is the worst so far,” Mrs Ofori-Kwafo noted.
However, she said the future looks positive.
“When we are able to get the gains of the new initiatives; the
paperless port, the digital addressing system and the powers of the
Auditor General to do the disallowance and surcharging and then office
of the special prosecutor that has come on board…if all these
initiatives work very well for us, we’re hoping that in a year, two
years, three years to come, we should see a rise in Ghana’s CPI,” she
stated.
New Zealand and Denmark ranked highest with scores of 89 and 88
respectively while Syria, South Sudan and Somalia rank lowest with
scores of 14, 12 and 9 respectively.
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