Nigeria Still Ranked One Of The Most Corrupt Countries
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The latest ranking of Nigeria on the corruption scale released by Transparency International returned another grim verdict: Nigeria is still a nation of sleaze and graft, one of the most corrupt nations in the world. With a score of 27 out of a possible 100, Nigeria occupied 139th position on the corruption table, in the same league with Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Kenya and Nepal, indicating that the country has not shown any major improvement in its poor reputation. Last year, Nigeria was 143rd on the scale.
In all, 176 countries came under the purview of the index this
Botswana is the least corrupt country on the continent,scoring 65 and ranking first in Africa and 30th globally.
There are five other African nations, such as Seycheles, Namibia,Mauritius, Cape Verde and Rwanda ahead of Ghana.
South Africa fared worse than Ghana. It is 69th.
Denmark, Finland, and New Zealand shared first place in the 2012 rankings as the world?s least corrupt countries. Last year, New Zealand took first place and Denmark and Finland shared second place.
Denmark, Finland, and New Zealand shared first place in the 2012 rankings as the world?s least corrupt countries. Last year, New Zealand took first place and Denmark and Finland shared second place.
Not much changed at the bottom of the rankings either. Somalia, Afghanistan, and North Korea all tied for 174th, or last place, in this year?s rankings. North Korea and Somalia tied for last place in 2011, and Afghanistan was in the bottom five.
The Berlin-based anti-corruption group?s annual survey has become a go-to source for scoring the level of graft and bribery in most of the world?s countries. The rankings? neat format make them an accessible benchmark for the anti-corruption community. Journalists regularly cite the index, and companies factor it in when weighing investment in a foreign country.
The rankings are an aggregate of a handful of corruption indexes. This year?s rankings drew from 13 indexes compiled over the last year. This is a change from previous years when the rankings used data pulled from a longer period than just the previous year.
TI always cautions against year-over-year comparisons, and did so this year, but said that because of the new methodology, year-to-year comparisons would be possible in future. The group said the change in methodology came after a ?rigorous review.?
In the 2012 index, two-thirds of the 176 countries ranked scored below 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean).
The U.S. fared slightly better this year, coming in at 19th with a score of 73, down from 24th place last year.
?After a year of focus on corruption, we expect governments to take a tougher stance against the abuse of power,? TI Chair Huguette Labelle said in a news release. ?The Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 results demonstrate that societies continue to pay the high cost of corruption.?
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Economic Summit Group in Abuja has described the latest Transparency International (TI) index report on Nigeria as `a wakeup call? to the fight against corruption.
Mr Frank Nweke, the Director-General, NESG said: ?this figure merely serves to remind us that we need to keep working on the issue of corruption in the public and private sector.
?Even if we are ranked 20th out of 176, I still feel that government must continue to redouble its efforts to really address these issues,?? he said.
Nweke made the comment at a news conference to mark the end of the 18th summit of the Nigeria Economic Summit.
Earlier, Mr Folusho Philips, the Chairman of the NESG, was asked to assess Nigeria?s government fight against corruption in the light of the latest TI report.
In his response, Philips said: ?all I can say is that there is a due process for pursuing issues about corruption.
?Where people have been identified and government agencies such as the EFCC and the Court has confirmed and charged them, due process normally follows.
?Before then one has to be very careful on how to come to conclusion to talk about the level of corruption in Nigeria, ?? he said.
Earlier in his remarks during a panel discussion for financial regulators at the summit, the Central Bank Governor, Malam Sansui Lamido Sanusi, said no country was immune to corruption.
?The greatest challenge facing Nigeria is the challenge of a people that have lost sight of the importance of merit and not corruption.
?If you go to China they steal money, in Malaysia there is corruption and why don?t we hear about it?
?It is because every day, these countries are developing, if you go to the hospitals, the doctors know their jobs, you go to the school, the teacher is qualified.
?If you are running a bank, a regulatory agency or a minister, there is merit,?? he said.
Sansui, however, expressed dismay that in Nigeria, issues of tribalism, religion and nepotism had relegated merit to the background.
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