Ghana Integrity Initiative, GII, has described the 2017 Corruption Perception Index, CPI, as the reflection of governance during the period the analyses were done.
The latest index showed that Ghana has dropped three points from its 2016 score of 43 to 40 in 2017 and ranked 81 out of the total of 180 countries in the fight against corruption.
The Executive Director of GII,  Linda Ofori-Kwafo said the position for Ghana in the index reflects what has happened during the period in question.
"For a country is to be included in the CPI it should at least have three of these surveys conducted in your country for at least two years so twelve to twenty-four months…. You realized that we have data sources for Ghana for the year 2016 and then data sources for Ghana again in the year 2017 and then we have 7 out of the 9."
"The reflection of what has happened in our country during the period in question," she added.
Ghana records worst performance in Corruption fight since 2012
Transparency International has revealed in the latest corruption perception index (CPI) that Ghana has recorded its worst performance in the last six years in its fight against corruption.
The report which was released Wednesday, February 21, 2018, showed that Ghana has dropped three points from its 2016 score of 43 to 40 in 2017 and ranked 81 out of the total of 180 countries.
The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of zero (being highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Linda Ofori- Kwafo, said Ghana’s poor score in 2017 is a reflection of inadequate investigations, prosecutions and sanctioning of corrupt officials.
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