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WHO IS MOST CORRUPT IN GHANA?
THURSDAY, 7TH JULY, 2005 -- Personnel of the police service, the judiciary and tax revenue service top the list of persons perceived to be the most corrupt in the country. This is the outcome of a research conducted nationwide in March this year, by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana.
Dubbed the ‘Afrobarometre Survey’, the research is the third conducted by the CDD since 1999. Afrobarometre surveys are used to collect information on views of Africans on democracy, governance, economic reform, civil society and quality of life in 18 African countries.
Announcing the findings of the survey in Accra yesterday, Prof. Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, executive director of CDD said, “popular perception of corruption among public officials appears to be increasing”, and “Ghanaians believe that corruption among public officials is quite common place”.
He said: “The President and officials in his office do not escape popular perception that they are involved in some corruption. Well over 56 per cent of the 1,199 respondents perceived some corruption at the presidency.”
According to the report, the perception of corruption in the presidency recorded the highest rise, from nearly 40 per cent in 2002 to over 55 per cent in 2005, with members of Parliament placing a distant second.
Ironically, despite this high level of perception of corruption in official circles, he said there was a growing level of public confidence in political leaders adding “the survey found that Ghanaians are increasingly satisfied with the performance of their elected representatives.” He said the majority of Ghanaians still approved of the way the President had performed this job over the past 12 months.
“Again, the majority, that is 65 per cent, approve of the performance of Members of Parliament. This is consistent with the trend observed in 2002 when approval of MPs’ performance was close to 60 per cent and a marked departure from the situation in 1999 when 57 per cent of Ghanaians were dissatisfied with the performance of their MPs,” he stated.
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