The office of the Vice President has fought off findings from the latest Afrobarometer report which suggest that the presidency is perceived as the second most corrupt institution in the country.

Technical Advisor to the Vice President, Dr. Kabiru Mahama in an interview with JoyNews on Wednesday raised issues with the sample distribution used for the survey.

He contended that perception does not paint the actual picture, stressing that the report is imbalanced.

“I had a bit of concern about the representation. If you look at it on face value, you realise that it is not balanced because the population of Ghana is not 50-50...There is not an interpretation of the fact that the Presidency is the second highest corrupt institution in this country. That is not the interpretation of that result," he said.

He intimated that the findings from the report has been misinterpreted.

He explained that “there is also an issue about locality. As much as 60 percent of the respondents are coming from urban areas. Even though we are having a trajectory where the population is gradually becoming urbanised, we do not still have as much as 60 percent of the country’s population being in urban areas.”

“The result that has been put in that particular slide if you look at that slide, it is not just the presidency, it is across the moral fibre of this particular society. The reason why Office of the President and the Police would always come first in any survey you do is because of the contact with the people.

“How many of the 2,400 respondents would have a contact with the journalist, traditional ruler and the Christian executive. So when we look at the contact level, you realise that politicians always almost all the time have contact with the people,” he stated.

Dr. Kabiru Mahama gave the government an excellent score in its fight against corruption.

“I think that the President on a scale of 1 to 10, I would give the President 8 out of 10. The reason why I am giving the President 8 is if you ask me how this country has fared in the fight against corruption, I would say that this country has done mainly good or fairly good. But if you ask about the President’s effort in fighting corruption, I would give the President 8,” he noted.

The Ghana Police Service and the Office of the President were perceived to be the most corrupt institutions in the country in the latest Afrobarometer study undertaken by the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana).

The research found that the Police’s score of 65% placed it at the top of the chain while the presidency followed in second position with 55%.