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Uneducated citizenry is like a pitch any game can be played on it. Illiteracy is what has given the politicians in Ghana the chance to fool so many people for so a long a time.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Ghana is second most corrupt African country – Report

Ghana’s fight against corruption has been dealt another setback after the country was ranked as the second most corrupt African nation behind South Africa.

The corruption perception index by the Transparency International stated about 71 percent of people living in Ghana say corruption has increased over the last twelve months.

Most governments across Africa are also seen as failing in their duty to stop the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals, according to the new opinion poll.

In the report People and Corruption: Africa Survey 2015, part of the Global Corruption Barometer, Transparency International partnered with Afrobarometer, which spoke to 43,143 respondents across 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa between March 2014 and September 2015 to ask them about their experiences and perceptions of corruption in their country.

The majority (58 per cent) of Africans in the surveyed countries, say corruption has increased over the past 12 months. In 18 out of 28 countries surveyed a large majority of people said their government is doing badly at fighting corruption.

Despite these disappointing findings, the bright spots across the continent were in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Lesotho and Senegal. Citizens in these countries were some of the most positive in the region when discussing corruption.

Ghana is closely followed by oil rich Nigeria making up the top three worst performing nations in the corruption index.

For the first time, people reported business executives as highly corrupt. Business ranked as having the second highest levels of corruption in the region, just below the police.

The police regularly rate as highly corrupt, but the strongly negative assessment of business executives is new compared to previous surveys. Business was followed by government officials, tax officials, judges and magistrates, members of parliament, local government councilors, office of the Presidency, traditional leaders and religious leaders.

22 per cent of people that have come into contact with a public service in the past 12 months said they paid a bribe.

Of the six key public services that we asked about, people who come into contact with the courts and police are the most likely to have paid a bribe.

Across the continent, poor people who use public services are twice as likely as rich people to have paid a bribe, and in urban areas they are even more likely to pay bribes.

“Corruption creates and increases poverty and exclusion. While corrupt individuals with political power enjoy a lavish life, millions of Africans are deprived of their basic needs like food, health, education, housing, access to clean water and sanitation. We call on governments and judges to stop corruption, eradicate impunity and implement Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals to curb corruption. We also call on the people to demand honesty and transparency, and mobilize against corruption. It is time to say enough and unmask the corrupt,” said Transparency International Chair José Ugaz.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

China Transformed

Since 1949 and more importantly since the 1970s, the people of China have sought to remove everything that has held China back. The past became the enemy to conquer in order to reach the future. Their collective effort has yielded major achievements. In the last 30 or 40 years, more than 600 million people have been moved from out of poverty with 300 million now enjoying middle income status. China overtook Japan in 2010 as the world’s second biggest economy and the country is tipped to overstake the United States as the world’s foremost economic superpower. Currently China has more than 170 cities each with a population of more than one people. It also has several megacities with 10 million people. Beijing the capital and its surrounding region have a population of 200 million, more than half of the entire population of the United States.

China is dubbed the 'workshop of the world' producing almost everything the world needs. It is the world's biggest producer of steel accounting for about 50 percent of global output. Alibaba, China's online marketing firm is bigger than ebay....to be continued

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