The Executive Director of GII’s admonishment comes on the heels of a release of the 2018 Corruption Perception Index by the Transparency International (TI) which has ranked Ghana 41 ahead of 37 other Sub-Saharan African countries including Benin 40, Swaziland 38, Gambia 37, and Tanzania 36 in a ranking involving 180 countries.
Ghana’s latest performance is a point higher than its previous performance of 40 in 2017.
However, Mrs. Linda Ofori-kwafo maintains that though the improvement is positive, it is not good enough. Ghana can do better, she lamented.
“Transparency International (TI) says that all countries performing below 50 obviously are not doing well so we should not be rat racing for the bottom place.
We should rather try and go up to where other countries are performing well, Seychelles and the rest are performing far better, like Botswana and the rest are performing better than Ghana. That is what we should be aiming,” the Chief Executive of GII stated.
She has further cautioned that everything must be done to ensure that the country does not recline in its present corruption score.
Speaking Monday on the Joy Super Morning Show she said: “what we need to do as a country is to ensure that we do not go back to our previous bad scores because in 2014 we were able to score 48 out of 100.”
We should be able to contain these gains and even perform better in the coming years. If we are not able to do then am not sure this CIP is helping us in any way, “she told show host Daniel Dadzie.
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