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Corruption gets worse with each government – Vitus Azeem

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Vitus Azeem, an anti-corruption activist and the former Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, is concerned about the level of corruption that is escalating in the nation.

Mr. Azeem noted that corruption had gotten worse under each successive government, which is a circumstance that should raise severe red flags.

His comments were in relation to the recent Corruption Perception Index. 

For the third consecutive year, Ghana failed to improve on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI).

Results published today show that Ghana’s score of 43 out of 100 in the 2022 CPI has remained the same since 2020. The country tied for 72nd (with Benin, Bulgaria, Senegal and South Africa) out of 180 countries.

The CPI uses impartial surveys from experts and business leaders to score and rank countries by the perceived level of corruption in their public sectors. It uses a scale of zero (perceived as highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived as very clean).

Speaking on the Day Break Upper East Show today, Mr. Azeem was worried about Ghana’s fight against corruption. 

“It wouldn’t get any better; especially now that we are entering the 2024 election. Politicians would be looking for more money to campaign and we the electorate, some of us would be looking for more money from the politicians. And so, it is going to be bad. It is not going to be better maybe within the next 5 to 10 years. It wouldn’t be better. From my observation, with every change in government, the new government tends to be more corrupt than the previous one.”

The mode of appointing public officials, according to Mr. Azeem, helps fuel corruption. 

“Public officers are appointed based on their actual or perceived affiliation to the party and so some of them are called upon to contribute to the party if they want to maintain their positions,” he said. 

The anti corruption campaigner added that corruption had become so pervasive because “our politics is so monetized. Without money, you cannot even win an assembly election. How about national elections? The amount of money people spend in primaries; they don’t spend less than Ghc200,000. With the inflation and exchange rate and all that, it is going to be more this time.”

Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana

 

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