{"id":403644,"date":"2018-02-22T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=403644"},"modified":"2018-02-23T06:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T06:15:06","slug":"corruption-ranking-proves-rot-nana-addo-govt-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/corruption-ranking-proves-rot-nana-addo-govt-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption ranking proves rot in Nana Addo gov’t – Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Minority in Parliament has said Ghana’s ranking on the 2017 Global Corruption Perception Index is a vindication of their position that the current government is presiding over a corrupt administration.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the Minority Spokesperson on Communications, A.B.A. Fuseini said the drop in Ghana’s ranking on the Index proves that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is unwilling to fight the canker.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”d7I9yMEhSkUtEaxHk9kksWjaka357oUD”]”It is a vindication of us in the Minority; that we had said consistently that there has been so much corruption in this government. In the one-year-old government of President Nana Akufo-Addo, the corruption has been stinking to the high heavens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He cited the $2.25 billion bond saga, which he said \u201cthe government was not even interested\u201d in looking into.<\/p>\n Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta was accused of cronyism by the Minority in the\u00a0bond issue, although the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) cleared him<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of any conflict of interest.<\/p>\n Mr. Fuseini noted other allegations of corruption which have been made under the current administration saying, “we have had the occasion to talk about the five million contaminated litres of fuel which were sent out under corrupt and opaque circumstances. We\u2019ve had premix fuel issues. We have had issues coming from Korle Bu. We have had issues at the Presidency itself.\u201d<\/p>\n 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