Former Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, has debunked the assertion that reports released by anti-graft institutions regarding corruption in the country is a matter of perception instead of reality.
In most instances where reports on surveys regarding corruption are released by institutions such as Afrobarometer, Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Global InfoAnalytics and the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) amongst others, ruling governments tend to demean the findings.
Usually, governments have said those are merely perceptions of people and not the reality. But according to Mr. Domelevo, the outcomes are the reality and not perceptions.
He has questioned why people do not perceive the government of the day not to be corrupt but rather engrossed with graft?
Speaking Saturday on the KeyPoints, Mr. Domelevo noted that Ghanaians are not oblivious of the news items from the media and the Auditor-General’s report which are inundated with series of corruption and corruption-related matters.
“Why is the perception not that they are not corrupt? And are they saying that we don’t read from the Newspapers, we don’t listen to the radio, we don’t see the Auditor-General’s report if there are evidence of corruption?
“So, I don’t think that this is just a matter of perception, it is reality. When the actual corruption index was also conducted, didn’t it give the same thing?” he questioned on TV3 Saturday, July 20, 2024.
“You can’t see the dailies for two or three days without issues of corruption so they can decide and play the ostrich and say it is perception,” he added.
The former Auditor-General noted that if for nothing at all, “we are told that about 12million was paid for Pwalugu Dam for which no work has been done or commenced” adding the Auditor-General’s report on the Covid-19 expenditure amongst others as reasons for government not to take corruption reports as merely perception but rather reality.
Mr. Domelevo was commenting on the Afrobarometer report which indicates that more Ghanaians are losing faith in democracy due to the increasing corruption in the country.
According to the report, 87% of Ghanaians, representing (almost) 9 out of 10 persons think the country is going in the wrong direction.
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