NCCE Begins Anti-Corruption Drive After Ghana’s Poor CPI Show

The National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) is rolling out a nationwide anti-corruption campaign.

The move is in response to Ghana’s poor performance in the 2017 Corruption Perception Index.

Ghana was ranked 81 out of 180 countries in the Index released on Wednesday February 21, 2018 by Transparency International dropping 11 places in the process as it was scored 40 as against last year’s score of 43.

It is Ghana’s 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).

“We are rolling out what we call the ARAP—accountability, rule of law, anti-corruption programme. It is from the NACAP—that is National Anti-Corruption Action Plan that we have rolled out this ARAP,” the Ashanti regional Director of the NCCE Wilson Arthur revealed with funding from the European Union.

He said they have already had a training workshop for all the 216 NCCE offices in the districts including the regions and headquarters on corruption and accountability.

“After that they will be going out and educate Ghanaians on the need for accountability [and] why we should eschew corruption and also why we should make sure that the rule of law pertains in Ghana,” he stated.

Source: Starrfmonline