Asiedu Nketiah blasts GII, accuses them of being in bed with NPP

The General secretary of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has accused anti-graft institution, Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) of being in bed with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). His comments follow the recent Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report that shows that public perception on corruption in the country is on the ascendancy.

According to the 2017 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), Ghana dropped 11 places from the 2016 ranking with a low score of 40% and ranked 81st of the 180 countries surveyed during the period of survey in 2017.

Speaking to kaakyire Kwesi Appea-Apraku, host of Power FM’s Dwaboase in Accra on Wednesday, the NDC’s chief scribe argued that the GII, which claimed that two (2) data sources out of Nine (9) were from 2016, it rather turned to rope the erstwhile NDC government into it saying corruption cases at the time accounted to the country’s low score.

“We all know that the CPI for 2017 was provided from nine data sources. Only 2 or 22% out of the total sources can be traced to 2016 when we were in power. The remaining seven or 88% emanated from 2017. Akufo-Addo was the president at the time, so how come the GII is pointing to NDC?” he said. Mr Nketiah continued that when the NPP realized the remaining data sources were from their time so they had to arrange with GII to twist their report against NDC.

Linda Ofori-Kwafo, Executive Director for Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) “When Transparency released the report, they (NPP) knew the report will dent their image . . . because majority of data sources used in this survey were based on happenings in the first year of President Akufo-Addo so they connived with GII to tilt the report,” he added.

To him, the infamous bus branding saga, SUBA and GYEEDA corruption cases that the GII referred to as the cases that contributed to the lower score happened earlier than when the data were collected for the survey hence the GII cannot be right in what it disclosed at its press conference.



Chastising the GII for churning out inaccurate information for Ghanaians, he said officials from the anti-corruption institution should bear in mind they did not conduct the survey “but some nine independent institutions, which include the World Bank, World Economic Forum, Executive Opinion, Global Impact Survey, African development Bank, World Justice project, Political Rate Service International” so they should not turn the report to favour the NPP government.