Mary Addah, Research and Programs Officer for Ghana Integrity Initiative
The Research and Programmes Officer for Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Mary Addah, says there is more room for improvement with respect to Ghana’s fight against corruption.
This comment comes after Ghana scored an average mark of 43 out of 100 on the 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International performing better than 39 other Sub-Saharan African (SSA) including Benin, Lesotho, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia, etc.
This shows an increase from 2019’s score of 41 pacings the country at the 75 out of 180 countries/territories included in this year’s index.
Ghana’s score of 43 placed her 10th in SSA with Seychelles ranking highest with 66 points followed by Botswana with 60, Cabo Verde with 58, Rwanda with 54, and Mauritius scored 53 as the top five countries.