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President John Dramani Mahama has accused some political leaders in the country and sections of the madia of deliberately distorting the recently published corruption perception report by transparency international. The global corruption biometer sort the opinion of citizens in countries across the continent on the fight against corruption over the past 12 months and 76% of ghanaians according to the report perceived corruption is on the rise. Speaking at the second high level conference of the national anti-corruption action plan in Accra President Mahama described as false the accusations that Ghana was ranked as one of the corrupt countries in the survey. "...This report by the transparency international on corruption which is partnered with the Afro Barometer to be conducted in some 28 Africa countries, did seek to rank countries in order of perception of corruption as the CPRU normally does. The simple and straight forward question that responded to the survey asked was, how has the level of corruption in your country changed over the past year, has it increased, decreased or has it stayed the same. �Suddenly in our partisan political environment, this was wrongly interpreted as placing Ghana as the second most corrupt country in Africa, which is absolutely false," he said. �Despite all attempt by institutions that sponsored the report to correct this wrong interpretation, leading political fears have continued to spread this false impression. He asked the question, "what can be the motivation for a section of our population to be so obsessed with trying to claim such an undignified title for ourselves at the expense of our nations dignity and our international image." He indicated that it is sad that "many other media networks including our own respected national daily graphic also run along with this falsehood and got the entire country engaged in the conversation that should never have taken place. Not only did the conversation end up misleading the Ghanaian public, it indeed gave our country an undeserved negative image amongst the committee of nations and the national community as a whole."