The senior vice president of the think tank Imani Centre for Policy and Education (Imani Africa) and an anti-corruption crusader, Kofi Bentil, has bemoaned the deliberate mismanagement of Ghana’s resources through corruption and its related activities.
The political elite and their appointees, in particular, were accused by Mr. Bentil of robbing the rest of the population by indulging in corruption, which cost the country twice as much as it borrowed for expansion.
On February 4, 2023, Mr. Bentil, a seasoned anti-corruption activist and campaigner, made this statement on the Newsfile segment on Multimedia.
In our country, we borrow [for expansion] more than twice as much as we steal and waste.
Less than 500,000 of the 30 million people in our country are in positions of power. The ministries and anything else are included in the 500,000, as well. He noted that the 30 million of us who rely on loans to get by steal and waste more than twice as much.
A promise to fight corruption helped the New Patriotic Party (NPP) win control of the government. However, Transparency International reports that it has consistently received a low score on the corruption perception index (CPI). While a score of 0 indicates that a country is severely corrupt or excessively unclean, a score of 100 indicates that a country is highly clean or that widespread corruption is present.
