{"id":466967,"date":"2018-02-23T18:10:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/23\/corruption-index-holistic-approach-needed-to-fight-dip-emile-short\/"},"modified":"2018-02-23T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:10:58","slug":"corruption-index-holistic-approach-needed-to-fight-dip-emile-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/23\/corruption-index-holistic-approach-needed-to-fight-dip-emile-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption Index : Holistic approach needed to fight dip \u2013 Emile Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 23 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-23<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/61840830.295.jpg\" alt=\"Emile Short Afrobarometer\" title=\"Emile Short Afrobarometer\" width=\"295\" height=\"218\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Emile Short, Former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519409458_27_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">A former CHRAJ boss Justice Emile Short is calling for a holistic approach to deal with corruption in the country as the two major political parties \u2013 the NDC and the NPP \u2013 engage in a blame game over Ghana\u2019s poor performance in the 2017 Corruption Perception Index.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana was ranked 81 out of 180 countries in the latest Index released on Wednesday by Transparency International. Ghana scored 40 as against last year\u2019s score of 43 \u2013 dropping 11 places. It is Ghana\u2019s worst performance in the last six years in its fight against the canker. The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of zero (being highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the CPI for 2017 and Ghana performed not too good. Ghana actually dropped so far as our score is concerned. The most important thing on the CPI is the score and so on the scale of 0 to 100, Ghana scored 40 out of 100 points,\u201d the Executive Director of the local chapter of Transparency International, Ghana Integrity Initiative, Linda Ofori-Kwafo said.<\/p>\n<p>She said Ghana\u2019s poor score in 2017 is a reflection of inadequate investigations, prosecutions and sanctioning of corrupt officials.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand and Denmark ranked highest with scores of 89 and 88 respectively while Syria, South Sudan and Somalia rank lowest with scores of 14, 12 and 9 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Government is blaming the dip on the previous Mahama administration\u2014a stance the opposition has vehemently rejected with the former advisor to ex-President John Mahama on Governance and Corruption, Daniel Batidam saying all the hard work done previously to fight the scourge and help Ghana rise on the Perception Index was gradually being derailed by the lack of action by the Akufo-Addo led government.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Starr News on the development Justice Short said pragmatic steps devoid of politics must be taken to address the canker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026This is a national problem and if we can fight corruption effectively it will benefit each and every one of us\u2014whether you are NPP or NDC \u2013 because it means that the government will have more resources to be able to provide social amenities [including] educational facilities, health facilities and so on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, he added: \u201cIt will interest everyone to be part of the solution and not part of the problem,\u201d stressing: \u201cI don\u2019t think it will be fruitful for us to engage in this blame game and that everybody has to know the role that he or she has to play to bring about significant reduction in the level of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 23 February 2018 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2018-02-23 Emile Short, Former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice A former CHRAJ boss Justice Emile Short is calling for a holistic approach to deal with corruption in the country as the two major political parties \u2013 the NDC and the NPP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":441876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}