Persons interested in leading their respective parties into the 2024 general election at the constituency level may have to be willing to expend more than Ghc200,000 to run their campaigns; successful or not. This is according to anti corruption campaigner, Vitus Azeem.
The increased cost of securing the nod to lead the party in the constituency could be associated with inflation, the value of the cedi, and, more importantly, the excessive monetization of the Ghanaian election process.
With the huge associated costs, corruption is fueled at an unimaginable scale.
Mr. Azeem shared these sentiments when he spoke on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show today, about Ghana’s standing on the Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International.
“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,” he said.
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).
Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana
