Ghana’s Special prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has expressed worry in the country’s current position on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI).
Ghana’s CPI score was 43 out of 100, a level it has maintained since 2020, placing the country 70th position out of 180 countries and territories in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2023, released by Transparency International (TI) on Tuesday, January 30, 2024.
Speaking during a round table discussion on the 2023 Corruption Perception Index under the theme Corruption and justice: where does Ghana stand? in Accra on Tuesday, he bemoaned Ghana’s lack of progress in years.
“I’m afraid I bare no good tidings on where we stand on corruption and justice, the focus of my musings. The results speak for themselves. We are standing at a single spot and spinning around slowly on one foot in a circle, much like a gyroscope, the conversation is becoming sterile. The fight against corruption is proven to be an unruly bride indeed. The fight against corruption is not lending herself to agreeable domestication and co-habitation and we are not recording much success. Our progress is hampered and we are unable to move the needle appreciable to improve our scorecard,” he said.
He emphasized Ghana’s lack of commitment to solving the menace though we are aware of what can be done to solve it.
“We certainly know the cure to the malaise but we are unwilling to take the medication fully, it is as if we don’t want to actually cure it though we reckon it is slowly killing us. it is as if we do not know what we want.”
