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Wednesday 8 April 2009

Africans among worst in 'corruption league'

Source:BBC
Dhaka street
Bangladesh has the worst rating in the survey
Bangladesh is the most corrupt nation in the world, according to an organisation fighting global corruption - but several African countries are close behind.

Most corrupt
Bangladesh
Nigeria
Uganda and Indonesia
Kenya, Cameroon, Bolivia and Azerbaijan
Ukraine
Tanzania
Ecuador, Pakistan and Russia
Transparency International (TI) rates Bangladesh at the bottom of a league of 91 countries in its annual corruptions perception index.

Each nation is given a mark out of 10 to indicate a lack of corruption in public life.

Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Iceland and Singapore all fare well scoring above nine - but Bangladesh gets just 0.4.

Pakistan fared only slightly better with 2.3 points.

'Urgent priority'

In a statement released in Berlin TI said poor countries as well as nations in transition, especially in the former Soviet Union, were often the worst offenders.

Least corrupt
Finland
Denmark
New Zealand
Iceland and Singapore
Sweden
Canada
Netherlends
Luxembourg
Norway
It also said that in African countries struggling with AIDS the situation was made worse by the fact that corruption was perceived to be very bad.

The group's chairman, Peter Eigen, said it was "essential that corrupt governments do not steal from their own people. This is now an urgent priority if lives are to be saved."

The group says its index for 2001 drew on 14 surveys from seven independent institutions.

It says it reflects "the perceptions of business people, academics and country analysts."

But it said that its survey did not reflect "secret payments to finance political campaigns or the complicity of banks in money laundering or bribery by multinational companies."

Last month 180 countries adopted a declaration against corruption at a meeting in The Hague.

The declaration aims to make governments more transparent and tackle corruption with tighter legislation, new monitoring systems and the exchange of expertise between countries.

1 comment:

Africa Image said...

I don't think Luxembourg deserve to be among the least corrupt nations because most of the monies stolen from Nigerian, Kenya and other countries end up in that country. The banking secrecy laws in that country have encouraged corrupt politicians and tax evaders to loot and hide their booty in Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, britain and France. I hope the transparency international will take account of where most of the stolen monies go to before they come out with a list of who is most corrupt and who is is not.

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