A corruption ranking published by some of the country’s media houses which ranks Ghana as the 3rd most corrupt country in the world is fake.
Ghana Integrity Initiative, the Local Chapter of Transparency International, says the publication and should be ignored.
A statement issued in Accra on January 17, 2020, and signed by the Executive Director of GII, Linda Ofori-Kwafo, said although the story which was sourced from www.usnews.com mentioned Transparency International (TI) for its definition of corruption and some key statements from the 2018 theme, it did not attribute the rankings to TI.
“Following the interest, the said story has generated among the general public, GII wishes to officially state that neither TI nor GII has released any such report,” the statement said.
It, however, used the opportunity to announce that the 2019 Corruption Perception Index by GII will be released on Thursday 23rd January 2020.
Below is the full statement issued by GII: