Presidential Staffer Dr. Clement Apaak has chided anti-graft agency, the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), describing it as an organisation that has lost integrity.
According to him, the GII’s apology to President John Mahama after asking him to learn from Nigeria’s Mahamadu Buhari and Tanzania’s John Magufuli in the fight against corruption is not enough.
In a statement copied to StarrFMonline.com, the NDC Parliamentary candidate for the Builsa South constituency said the GII deliberately allowed a misinformation of Ghana’s performance in a recent corruption survey by the Transparency International to fester for reasons known to them.
“Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has lost its integrity. The apology is NOT good enough! GII knew that the survey results Transparency International (TI) put out was based on data supplied by CDD Ghana. It was citizens survey NOT the annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI), not different from an opinion poll.
“Yet GII refused to correct the wrong perception that Ghana was 2nd most corrupt nation in Africa, knowing for a fact that TI never ranked nations based on the data, yet GII allowed the media to get away with all kinds of interpretations. As the local chapter of TI, GII knew the truth yet choose to be silent. Why? Your answer is as good as mine!” Apaak wrote.
The GII has in a statement apologized for the “inappropriate” comparison and withdrawn the specific paragraph from their initial statement which responded to government’s reaction to the survey by the TI.
