The survey according to the IEA was conducted in all the ten regions of Ghana with persons aged 18 years and above as the target population.<\/p>\n
But in a sharp rebuttal, government issued a statement describing the timing of the release of the report as suspicious and also challenged the IEA to back their claims with evidence<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n Findings not concocted <\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking to Citi New<\/strong>, a senior research fellow at the IEA, Dr. Ransford Gyampo insisted that the findings were not concocted.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve carried out surveys and research over the years, it would be amazing to think that somebody sits down to concoct stories and to write about them,\u201d he said explaining \u201cthat\u2019s not how we do our work.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Gyampo urged government and any other institution that feels victimized by the report could \u201cdrive through the institute and we are ever prepared and ever ready to sit down and tell the story about how we came out with these findings.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you want to know or get the data for your own analysis we are prepared to give both hard and softcopy information regarding what we have done so that you can do your independent analysis and assessment on the situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Ghanaians won\u2019t be surprised by IEA survey \u2013 NPP<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said many Ghanaians are not surprised<\/strong><\/a><\/span> by the findings by the IEA.<\/p>\n The Director of Communications for the NPP, Nana Akomea insisted that Ghanaians \u201cwill not be surprised because there is a very big perception out there that corruption starts from the head.\u201d<\/p>\n Referring to some corrupt deals under the Mahama- led administration, Nana Akomea noted that about 20 million dollars given to the Savannah Accelerated Development Agency(SADA) for afforestation was wasted, adding that no one was asked to account for that the huge amount of money.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n![\"Nana](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Nana-Akomea-NPP-Ghana4.jpg\")
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