Ghana’s battle against corruption stagnant for four years, CPI reveals

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2023, released by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), indicates that Ghana’s efforts to combat corruption have not improved in the last four years.

The GII explained in a press release that Ghana scored 43, ranking it 8th out of 49 sub-Saharan African countries included in the index, alongside Benin and Senegal, which also scored 43.

Ghana performed better than 39 other sub-Saharan African countries, including Burkina Faso, South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, Tanzania, and Lesotho, all of which scored lower.

However, even countries such as Mauritius, Namibia, and Sao Tome and Principe scored higher than Ghana.

According to the GII report, the CPI scores for Africa this year reveal a mixed picture, with some notable advances in a few countries.

It continued: “The majority of African countries, however, continued to perform poorly, preserving the region’s continuously low average score of 33 out of 100 from prior years. Ninety percent of Sub-Saharan African nations received a score of less than fifty.

“The top performers in the region were Seychelles (71), followed by Cabo Verde (64), Botswana(59)and Rwanda (53). Sudan (20), Equatorial Guinea (17), South Sudan (13), and Somalia (11) had the lowest scores.”