Member of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of Parliament and MP for Tamale Central Inusah Fuseini has called for a holistic approach to the fight against corruption in the country after the latest report on Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International.
 According to him, the perception of corruption in the country is directly affecting investor confidence making if difficult to do business in Ghana.
Speaking on news analyses show NewsFile on Saturday, February 24, Inusah Fuseini said the latest report on corruption perception index is not an issue to play politics with because the report is country specific and will at the long end affect the image of Ghana.
Inusah Fuseini noted one of the major factors leading to the increase in corruption perception is how the current government and politicians prosecute people on alleged corruption in the media.
He raised issues about how government officials accused journalists of being in possession of government vehicles among other accusations without evidence.
Inusah Fuseini believes the report is a wakeup call for the President to fight corruption holistically.
Private Legal practitioner Kofi Bentil also advised the country not to fight the report because these are reports used by business partners in their line of duty.
He added that the perception index is a reality for most people now.
Ghana records worst performance in Corruption Fight
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.
“Since the CPI became comparable from the period 2012 to now, this is the worst performance that Ghana has had. This year, 2017CPI, we are saying Ghana’s performance from 2012 is the worst so far,†Mrs. Ofori-Kwafo indicated.
Worse performance in corruption fight reflects governance in Ghana
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.
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