Kampala
A new Corruption Perception Index (CPI 2012) released on Wednesday has ranked Uganda the 46th most corrupt country in the world.
The rankings come in the wake of a massive wave of
corruption scandals in government entities and private cooperations
operating in Uganda. The CPI 2012 by international organization,
Transparency International, measures perceived levels of public sector
corruption in 176 countries and territories.
In the region, Kenya’s ranking continues to
deteriorate, this time being ranked the 35th in the world, Tanzania (72)
and Rwanda (124).
In August, the East African Bribery Index
conducted by Transparency International, Kenya ranked Uganda with the
highest level of bribery at 40.7 per cent, followed by Tanzania at 39.1
per cent, Kenya at 29.5 per cent and Rwanda 2.5 per cent.
According to the report, to access most of the
essential services in Uganda, you are more likely to fork out a bribe
than in any other East African country. The index score relates to
perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and
country analysts and ranges between zero, which is highly corrupt, and
100, which is very clean.
The report comes at a time when the country is
awash with revelations of abuse of office and corruption in various
ministries, the police investigation department currently probing cases
of alleged cases in about five ministries.
Most prominent is investigations into alleged
corruption in the Office of the Prime Minister, where it is believed
that more than Shs50 billion meant for peace recovery programmes in
northern Uganda was embezzled.
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