Ghana’s anti-corruption fight stagnates – GACC report reveals public distrust
Ghana’s fight against corruption remains stagnant despite several years of state and civil society interventions, the State of Corruption Report 2024 by the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) has revealed.
The report, which evaluates the country’s corruption performance from January to December 2024, showed that citizens continued to express deep dissatisfaction with efforts to root out corruption, while institutional safeguards appeared to be weakening.
The report revealed that Ghana scored 42 out of 100 on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2024, maintaining the same score for the fifth consecutive year.
The country ranked 80th out of 180 countries, showing no significant improvement since 2019.
GACC interpreted this stagnation as a signal of...