Anti-corruption non-profit Transparency International, TI,
has released its 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, which surveyed residents in
107 countries, ranking Nigeria, Zambia, Paraguay, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Venezula
and Russia as the largest countries on the globe with active corruption indices
with Liberia and Mongolia leading the table. According to the report, the
world’s corrupt nations differ in many ways. Four are located in Africa, three
in Latin America and two in Asia. These nations also vary considerably in size
and population. Mongolia has just 3.2 million residents, while Mexico, Nigeria
and Russia are three of the largest countries on the globe, each with more than
100 million people.
In Nigeria, 84% of those surveyed by Transparency
International claimed corruption had increased in the past two years, a higher
percentage than almost any other country in the world. Troublingly, 75% of
those surveyed also said the government was, at best, ineffective at fighting
corruption, worse than in all but 10 countries.
TI says Nigeria is heavily dependent on the oil industry, yet the government refuses to act on accusations that the oil companies are underreporting the value of the resources they extract and the tax they owe by billions of dollars. The report adds that “certain transparency groups also blamed politicians for encouraging corruption. In 2012, Nigeria had just the 37th largest GDP in the world, despite having the world’s seventh largest population. In Liberia, the majority of Liberians surveyed said they believed the country was run either largely or entirely by a few entities acting in their own self-interest.
TI says Nigeria is heavily dependent on the oil industry, yet the government refuses to act on accusations that the oil companies are underreporting the value of the resources they extract and the tax they owe by billions of dollars. The report adds that “certain transparency groups also blamed politicians for encouraging corruption. In 2012, Nigeria had just the 37th largest GDP in the world, despite having the world’s seventh largest population. In Liberia, the majority of Liberians surveyed said they believed the country was run either largely or entirely by a few entities acting in their own self-interest.
“A world-leading 86% of residents who spoke to Transparency
International claimed their government had been either ineffective or very
ineffective at fighting corruption, while 96% of residents claimed Liberia’s
legislature was corrupt, also the highest percentage of any nation. A stunning
75% of residents surveyed claimed they had paid a bribe to secure some service,
trailing only Sierra Leone.“In all, 80% of the population had at one point been
asked to pay a bribe. Recently, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf fired the
country’s auditor general for corruption. Many of those surveyed in the highly
corrupt countries also felt their governments were not holding up their end of
the bargain.”According to the report, “in seven of the nine countries, more
than half of those questioned felt their government was ineffective at fighting
corruption. In Liberia, 86% of residents surveyed said their government was
ineffective at fighting the problem. This was the largest proportion of any of
the 107 nations Transparency International surveyed. While corruption appears
to affect every part of the public sector, certain segments were much worse
than the rest.
“Globally, at least 60% of respondents claimed political
parties and police were corrupt. Additionally, more than 50% of people stated
their legislature, their public officials and their judiciary were corrupt.In
the world’s most corrupt nations, those institutions were, naturally, even
worse. In Nigeria, 94% of people claimed their political parties were corrupt,
the most in the world. Similarly, 96% of Liberians reported their legislature
was corrupt, also the most in the world. In eight of the nine most corrupt
nations, more than 80% of residents considered the police to be corrupt.”
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