Nigeria is
currently ranked 146 out of the 180 countries on the 2019
corruption perception index, according to Transparency International.
The index ranks 180 countries and territories by their
perceived levels of public sector corruption in the opinion of experts and
business people, using a scale of 0 to 100, where zero means “highly corrupt”
and 100 means very clean.
The report released on Thursday said Nigeria scored 26
out of 100 points, dropping from the 27 points that it has maintained since
2017. In the 2018 index, Nigeria rose by four places from 148 to 144.
However, Nigeria’s attorney-general and justice minister
Abubakar Malami said there are no proofs by Transparency International to rank
Nigeria 146 out of the 180 countries on the 2019 corruption perception index.
In an interview on Channels Television’s LunchTime
Politics, Malami said the “facts on the ground do not correlate with the
information dished out” by Transparency International.
“In terms of the fight against corruption, we have been
doing more, we have done more and we will continue to do more out of inherent
conviction and desire on our part to fight against corruption devoid of any
extraneous considerations relating to the rating by Amnesty International,”
Malami said.
In the report, Nigeria
also ranked the fourth most corrupt country out of the 19 countries in
the West African region.
Transparency International said the position of all
countries in the report is based cases of corruption “from fraud that occurs at
the highest levels of government to petty bribery that blocks access to basic
public services like healthcare and education, citizens are fed up with corrupt
leaders and institutions.”
Transparency International’s chair Delia Ferreira Rubio
asked the government to urgently address what she describes as the corrupting
role of big money in political party financing and the undue influence it
exerts on political systems.
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