CPI score: Ghana should not run for the bottom – Ghana Integrity Initiative

General News on Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-01-29

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) called for a modest celebration following Ghana's improved ranking in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI).

The condemnation of GII's executive director came shortly after Transparency International's (TI) publication of the 2018 Corruption Perception Index, which ranked Ghana 41 in front of 37 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Benin 40, Swaziland 38 and Gambia 37. and Tanzania 36 on a ranking involving 180 countries.

Ghana's latest performance is one point higher than its previous performance of 40 in 2017.

However, Ms. Linda Ofori-kwafo maintains that although the improvement is positive, it is not good enough. Ghana can do better, she lamented.

"Transparency International (TI) says that all countries whose performance is below 50 are obviously not doing well, so we should not be too crazy.

We should rather try to go where other countries have good results, Seychelles and others have much better results, as Botswana and others have better results than Ghana. That's what we should aim for, "said the director of GII.

She also warned that everything must be done so that the country does not fall back in its current corruption score.

Speaking Monday at the Joy Super Morning Show, she said: "What we have to do as a country, is make sure we will not go back to our previous bad scores, because in 2014 we were able to record 48 out of 100 ".

We should be able to contain these gains and even perform better in the years to come. If we are not able to do it, I'm not sure this program helps us in any way, "she told host Daniel Dadzie.