The Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Vitus Azeem, says the comparatively better rating received by Ghana in the latest Corruption Perception Index should not be grounds for celebration.

According to him, the ranking was not an indication that the nation is doing well in its fight against corruption.

Speaking to Joy News, Mr. Azeem pointed out that while measures taken by government to fight corruption were encouraging, concrete results were required to convince the citizenry that much was being done to deal with the canker.

The just released 2013 Corruption Perception Index report placed Ghana in a better position than last year's.

The report says Ghana is making strides in its quest to nib corruption in the bud, but Transparency International, the global civil society organization leading the fight against corruption says that this does not mean corruption is not a serious problem in Ghana.

Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Index showed that Ghana scored 46 points on this year's index out of a score of 100 and ranked 63 out of 177 countries included in the survey. This means Ghana's performance is a slight improvement from the 45 points scored last year.

The score and rank means that the country performed much better than several other African countries, including South Africa and Tunisia.

This does not mean that corruption is not a serious problem in Ghana because like two thirds of the 177 countries/territories ranked by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, Ghana was scored below 50, on a scale of 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean).

Faced with recent high profile allegations of corruption, from judgment debts to the sale of public assets, scoring below 50 only serves as another reminder that we have not marshaled enough resolve in tackling corruption.