Still corrupt
YET again, the Federal Government rejected Transparency International’s assessment of corruption in the country. Nigeria was 146th out of 180 countries, according to the organisation’s 2019 Corruption Perception Index . Also, Nigeria was ranked the fourth most corrupt country out of 19 countries in the West African region
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission described the rating as “jaundiced and illogical,” saying, “We insist that the rating is a far cry from the evident strides and achievements so far accomplished by the anti-graft agency in the fight against corruption, particularly under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.”
Significantly, TI’s rating is supported by a public survey by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project last year involving 2,549 respondents across the country’s six geo-political zones and covering eight states – Ondo, Enugu, Rivers, Lagos, Adamawa, Kano, Kaduna and Kwara- which showed that public opinion on corruption was bad. Abuja was added as a sampling area because of its status as the country’s capital.
The most disturbing aspect of the report was that “Almost half of the respondents surveyed do not believe that corruption can be successfully fought in Nigeria.” This suggested that the public believed the Buhari administration’s anti-corruption effort was going nowhere. Worse still, it also suggested that corruption would always be a big problem in Nigeria.
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