Mr. Rawlings’ claims come on the back of pressure being mounted on President Mahama to resign for receiving a $100, 000 Ford vehicle<\/strong><\/a><\/span> from a Burkinabe contractor who is said to have benefited from some lucrative contracts from government.<\/p>\n The Minority side in Parliament has started collecting signatures of New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs in a bid to have the Speaker of the House open impeachment proceedings<\/strong><\/a><\/span> against the President or have him investigated.<\/p>\n Corruption has reached epidemic level<\/strong><\/p>\n The Head of the Human Security Department of the National Security Secretariat, Brigadier-General Joseph Nunoo\u2013Mensah (rtd) had earlier said Ghana\u2019s corruption rate had reached an epidemic status<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is happening in Ghana and in the last few days tells me that there is complete rot in our society and we need to do something about it. It is more like an epidemic that is running through the system,\u201d he observed with concern.<\/p>\n Ghana improves slightly in 2015 corruption perception index<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile the recent \u00a0Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by anti-graft agency Transparency International revealed that Ghana improved slightly<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in the fight against corruption in the sub-region.<\/p>\n Ghana ranked the 7th African country with high level of corruption in the latest index, an improvement over the years.<\/p>\n 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 –<\/p>\n![\"President](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mahama-at-fire-service-300x199.png\")