Editor of the Insight Newspaper Kwesi Pratt has accused the NPP of being inconsistent with discussions on the Corruption Perception Index, CPI, and deliberately running away from the report.
Kwesi Pratt said the NPP is scared of being treated the same way they did in 2012 and 2014 forcing them to fight the date for the report.
Speaking on Radio Gold's "Alhaji&Alhaji", Kwesi Pratt said, "the corruption perception index has been released for 25years, it is good we are beginning to realise that is it a national problem and that is has nothing to with party politics."
But commenting on the response of the NPP government blaming the NDC for the poor performance of Ghana in the latest CPI report he noted that the NPP is scared of being treated the same way the treated the NDC in past.
 "We need to be very consistent with this discussion, consistency is very important meanwhile the New Patriotic Party today are saying that this report is not about 2017 is about 2016, do you know why because the communicators of the party the propagandists of the party, the leaders of the party remembered what they did with the CPI in 2012, 2013,2014, and 2016 they clearly what they did with it and they do not want the same to be done to them so what can they do no it was not in our time.."
"it is because it is difficult to be consistent if indeed the report was in 2017 what they did with the report in 2016 has to be done in 2017 and because they cannot do that they are running away from the year from the date." Kwesi Pratt added.Â
Kwesi Pratt's comment falls in line with NDC's reaction to the report
Former Deputy Communications Minister Felix Kwakye-Ofosu says the NPP government should not blame the NDC for the latest Corruption Perception Index which the current Government performed abysmally.
Felix Kwakye-Ofosu who served under the former Mahama led administration said their attempt to blame the NDC government for their failure to fight corrupt activities seeks to belittle the intelligence of Ghanaians.
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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