{"id":688164,"date":"2019-08-21T18:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p>The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has rubbished report by a pro National Democratic Congress (NDC) news portal, Ghanaguardian.com that Ghana has been ranked the second most corrupt country in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghanaguardian.com had attr"},"modified":"2019-08-21T18:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:42:38","slug":"gii-rubbishes-corruption-ranking-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/21\/gii-rubbishes-corruption-ranking-report\/","title":{"rendered":"GII Rubbishes Corruption Ranking Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has rubbished report by a pro National Democratic Congress (NDC) news portal, Ghanaguardian.com that Ghana has been ranked the second most corrupt country in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaguardian.com had attributed its reportage to Transparency International.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaweb later sourced the story from Ghanaguardian.com and published.<\/p>\n<p>But GII in a statement stated \u201cunequivocally that the said article is false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said \u201cTransparency International has not issued any such report,\u201d entreating the general public to disregard the said report.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>BY Melvin Tarlue <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has rubbished report by a pro National Democratic Congress (NDC) news portal, Ghanaguardian.com that Ghana has been ranked the second most corrupt country in Africa. Ghanaguardian.com had attributed its reportage to Transparency International. Ghanaweb later sourced the story from Ghanaguardian.com and published. But GII in a statement stated \u201cunequivocally that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GII Rubbishes Corruption Ranking Report - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/21\/gii-rubbishes-corruption-ranking-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"GII Rubbishes Corruption Ranking Report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has rubbished report by a pro National Democratic Congress (NDC) news portal, Ghanaguardian.com that Ghana has been ranked the second most corrupt country in Africa. 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