{"id":403538,"date":"2018-02-22T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=403538"},"modified":"2018-02-22T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:30:59","slug":"corruption-ranking-covered-corruption-cases-under-mahama-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/corruption-ranking-covered-corruption-cases-under-mahama-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption ranking covered corruption cases under Mahama – Gov’t"},"content":{"rendered":"
The government has explained that Ghana’s poor performance in the 2017 Global Corruption Perception Index also took into account corruption cases recorded under the John Mahama administration, which left power in January 2017.<\/p>\n
The government\u2019s Spokesperson on Governance and Legal Affairs, Herbert Krapa, explained that the report was not an indication that the current New Patriotic Party [NPP] government was corrupt.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”WpWDfux8fZXe1T53rHNDXHtvFMej6w1p”]Ghana dropped 11 places from the 2016 ranking to place 81 out of 180 countries in the 2017 Corruption Perception index.<\/p>\n
Ghana\u2019s mark out of a total of 100 was 40, down from 43, which the country attained in the 2016 index.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Citi News<\/strong>, Mr. Krapa referenced\u00a0the Ghana Integrity Initiative’s (GII) technical report, which shows that corruption perception for a given year takes into account two years.<\/p>\n This would mean that the 2017 corruption index also covered 2016, where there was a lack of will to tackle corruption from the Mahama government, according to Mr. Krapa.<\/p>\n “When you look at the technical report which GII added, such that it is a period of two years in which the perception is compiled, when you look at 2016, in that year, you know all the corruption allegations that came to the fore: the bus branding saga, Ghana Standards Authority, NCA [National Communications Authority], Electoral Commission allegations and a host of them that the [Mahama] government did not show any commitment to fighting revelations and scandals that had been made public.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Krapa further assured that the Akufo-Addo administration was committed to fighting corruption with all the seriousness.<\/p>\n \u201cNow the perception would be that the current administration has done very little to fight the corruption that the John Mahama administration is said to have supervised. I can assure that whatever report, whatever these exposes\u2026 would have exposed and made clear that corruption was particularly present, all of them would be prosecuted and the law courts would determine whether there was actual corruption or not.\u201d<\/p>\n What the GII report said<\/strong><\/p>\n The GII noted that Ghana\u2019s score of 40 points was likely a reflection of the insufficient investigations, prosecutions and sanctioning of corrupt acts, per data sources from 2016.<\/p>\n