Unlike other times when Government has hurriedly rubbished surveys touting the administration as corrupt, it\u00a0has this time around welcomed the latest\u00a0corruption perception index report, which suggests the country\u00a0has slightly improved in its fight against corruption.<\/p>\n
They Corruption Perception Index (CPI)\u00a0by anti-graft body, Transparency International, ranked Ghana 56th<\/sup> out of 168 countries in the world with a score of 47.<\/p>\n The figure shows a \u00a0slight improvement in the fight against corruption in the sub-region as against figures from previous year.<\/p>\n It further ranked Ghana as the 7th<\/sup> country in Africa to have inched up in the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”qUNXam3QpNiF0jha9kOvQTXozL4YG9cY”]According to a statement from the local chapter of Transparency International, Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), \u201cThe CPI 2015 scored Ghana 47 out of clean score of 100 and ranked the country 56 out of 168 countries.\u201d<\/p>\n Ghana scored below six African countries \u2013 Botswana \u2013 63, Cape Verde \u2013 55, Seychelles \u2013 55, Rwanda \u2013 54, Mauritius and Namibia which scored 53.<\/p>\n A\u00a0statement signed by the Minister of Communications, Dr. Edward K. Omane Boamah, said although the performance is one point lower than that of 2014, it is gratifying that Ghana was ranked better in Africa.<\/p>\n Dr. Omane Boamah said the current ranking as against previous years show that government\u2019s fight against corruption has yielded positive results.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cGiven that this is a perception survey, it stands to reason that the views expressed by respondents were based on what they heard about the subject in the year under review. It also stands to reason therefore that the intense media focus on the allegations of corruption in the Judiciary as well as the repetition of some obviously false allegations against government in 2015 contributed to the perception,\u201d the Minister added.<\/p>\n Dr. Omane Boamah said government is committed to\u00a0fighting corruption assuring that they will ensure the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP).<\/p>\n \u201cWe are also mindful of the \u2018paradox of exposure\u2019- which creates a scenario where government\u2019s efforts to expose and punish acts of wrongdoing such as the National Service Case, generates discussions among the populace creating a misleading impression of pervasive corruption when the opposite is in fact the case. We nonetheless commit and rededicate ourselves to the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan(NACAP).\u201d<\/p>\n He said government will also continue to strengthen the relevant state institutions and work with Civil Society to win the war against corruption.<\/p>\n \u201cWe commend all stakeholders who have genuinely contributed to this enviable feat as proclaimed by Transparency International.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unlike other times when Government has hurriedly rubbished surveys touting the administration as corrupt, it\u00a0has this time around welcomed the latest\u00a0corruption perception index report, which suggests the country\u00a0has slightly improved in its fight against corruption. They Corruption Perception Index (CPI)\u00a0by anti-graft body, Transparency International, ranked Ghana 56th out of 168 countries in the world with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}