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The government has rejected allegations of corruption levelled against its appointees and functionaries by former President Jerry John Rawlings. Former President Rawlings, while delivering his speech at a rally to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the June 4, 1979 Uprising in Kumasi last Saturday, claimed that leading members of the government had gone into a pact with officials of the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) regime led by former President Kufuor to overlook corrupt practices on both sides. Government officials, he also said, were dipping her hands into state resources in their attempt to amass individual wealth at the expense of Ghanaians who elected them to serve their interests. In an interview with the Daily Graphic, a Deputy Information Minister, Mr. Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, said President Mills, being an honest person, had consistently made corruption too expensive for any of his officials to indulge in. That, he said, has earned the President praises from even his critics, some of whom had even vouched for him. He indicated that the Transparency International report for 2010 praised Ghana as a less corrupt country in 2010 than it was in 2008. According to him, attempts by former President Rawlings to malign the President and his officials with statements such as �the inevitable will happen� amounted to blackmail and threat.