The New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Prof. Mike Ocquaye is the best performing politician in Ghana, AfricaWatch Magazine has said. According to the Magazine’s 2011 Political Performance Index (PPI) on 309 Ghanaian politicians, Prof. Ocquaye has beaten President JEA Mills in terms of performance. Myjoyonline.com last week reported that the magazine was about to release yet another controversial PPI scores of the performance of politicians in Ghana with only one person making an ‘A’. It has emerged that that person is Prof Ocquaye. Prof. Ocquaye is thus the best performing parliamentarian in Ghana, also beating the Speaker of Parliament, Joyce Bamford Addo, who scored B+ and the First Deputy Speaker, Doe Adjaho, who obtained a respectable A-. Although graded separately and on different indices, President Mills' average score is C+. He obtained C+ on Foreign Policy, C+ on Economic Development, C on Social Interventions, Political Developments: B+, National Security: C+ and Ethical Behaviour: B+. The PPI first released last year sparked heated debate with some MPs dragging the editor of the magazine, Steve Mallory to the Privilege Committee of the House - an invitation he ignored. This year's PPI will certainly generate further controversy. The 2011 PPI assigned a total of 309 letter grades to Ghanaian politicians. Of that number, only one person received an A rating and eight an A-. Nine officials earned a B+ ranking, while 32 were awarded a B and 25 a B-. Sixty earned a C+, while 59 merited a C and 39 a C-. Near the bottom of the list were 40 politicians who found themselves with a D+ and 18 with a D, leaving another 18 with the lowest-possible grade of F. The Minister for Food and Agriculture Kwesi Ahwoi topped the Ministers of State category with a B+, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development led the Deputy Ministers log with a B+ while the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo earned for himself a B to top his colleagues in that category. The chairman of the opposition NPP, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey was rated B- while the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia topped the political party executives’ grouping with B. Minister for Works and Housing Alban Bagbin dropped from C in the 2010 rating to C- but was also rated A- as Member of Parliament for Nadowli West. Finance Minister Dr. Kwabena Duffuor improved his rating from B- in 2010 to B this year same as Haruna Iddrisu, the Minister of Communications. The Health Minister, Joseph Yieleh Chireh, who has come under serious public backlash recently over the doctors’ strike dropped from B- to C+ which was the other way round for Hannah Tetteh, Minister of Trade and Industry. Under the Deputy Ministers’ category, a Deputy Minister of Information Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa scored B, Kobby Acheampong of the Interior Ministry had D+, Baba Jamal also with the information ministry had C-; Water Resources, Works and Housing’s Dr Hannah Bisiw rated C+ with Dr. Edward Omane Boamah of the Environment, Science and Technology as well as Mahama Ayariga of the Education Ministry both earning B-. James Agyenim Boateng of the Tourism Ministry had C, but the same could not be said for F rated Women and Children’s Affairs Hawa Boya Gariba and Dr Nii Oakley Quaye-Kumah of the Roads and Highways Ministry. Nana Akomea, MP for Okaikwei South had B, an improvement of last year’s B- while Moses Asaga MP for Nabdam bagged B+. The Africawatch magazine believes its annual index gives Ghanaians a guide for evaluating the performance of those who represent them at various levels of the society.