Ghana’s President Mahama among top performers on African Leadership Index

President John Dramani Mahama has been rated among Africa’s top ten leaders.

According to the 2012 African Leadership Index compiled by Kenya-based Nation Media Group (NMG) and released this month June 2013, President Mahama scored a grade of ‘B’ in the index.

The Africa Leadership Index is a tool of governance-tracking of African leaders. Leaders’ grades were derived from how they placed in five respected international indices of governance, plus the Nation Media Group (NMG) Political Index.

The indices were weighted as Mo Ibrahim Index – 10%; Democracy Index – 10%; Press Freedom Index – 10%; Corruption Index – 15%; Human Development Index – 20%; and NMG Political Index – 35%.

The NMG said the African leaders were assigned letter grades based on their 0-100 score, derived from the six indices.

It added that The best of the group received “A”, good performers got “B”, passable leaders got “C.” Leaders who performed below standard received “D” and “F.”

President Mahama’s grade ‘B’ means he is one of the “good performers” in African leadership, the Index noted.

Only two African leaders were graded ‘A’ and they are Mauritius Prime Minister, Dr. Navin Ramgoolam and Ian Khama, President of Botswana.

John Mahama became President of Ghana in July 2012 when the then President John Atta Mills passed away. Mr Mahama then went on to win the 2012 December elections and was declared President by the Electoral Commission.

A special report on the African Leadership Index has been published in the Nation Media’s African Review newspaper (June 1-7, 2013).

By Ekow Quandzie