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10.Uganda
,9. Equatorial Guinea
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8. Angola
Having corrupt officials in the government has become a norm for many
countries, but the entire government swindling few hundred million
dollars for personal gain is unheard of. Angola is one African country
which has managed to gain quite a reputation for itself as one of the
most corrupt countries in the world. Since not being able to account for
more than 5 billion dollars in the past ten years, Angola has managed
to become the 4th most corrupt country in Africa and is also on the
world’s top ten most corrupt countries list.7. Cameroon
62% of Cameroonians paid a bribe in the
last year. Of the respondents, 81% felt that the judiciary is very
corrupt, and 71% felt that corruption was rife in academic institutions.
More disappointing is that 46% of the respondents feel that corruption
has increased over the last 2 years; only 30% felt that corruption had
decreased.
.6. Mozambique
62% of Mozambican respondents said
either they or someone in their household paid a bribe at some point
over the last year. 79% of the respondents felt that the education
sector was highly corrupt (only the police were thought more corrupt).
The Ministry of Education has been mired in multiple scandals such
as diversion of funds and corrupt admission to schools. The report is
however encouraging in that 64% of the respondents believe ordinary
citizens can make an impact in the fight against corruption.
5. Zimbabwe
62% of Zimbabwe respondents said they
paid bribes over the last year. 77% of Zimbabweans think corruption has
increased over the last 2 years, which Zimbabwe Independent
attributesto rising poverty and hardship. 65% of the respondents said
they they thought the health sector was highly corrupt. A 151-page
government report released earlier this yearshows that government
hospitals are highly corrupt. The TI report notes, for example, that
women giving birth in a local hospital have been charged US$5 every time
they scream as a penalty for raising a false alarm.
4. Libya
62% of Libya’s respondents said they had
paid a bribe over the last year, mainly because it was the only way to
obtain a service. A discouraging 71% of the respondents said they
wouldn’t report an incident of corruption because they are afraid of the
consequences; a press releasefrom Amnesty International indicates that a
newspaper editor was detained and faces up to 15 years in prison for
publishing a list of 84 allegedly corrupt judges.
.3. Kenya
74% of the Kenyan respondents said they
had paid bribes to access government services. Also, 95% said they felt
that the police were very corrupt. Asked why they paid the bribes, 56%
said they did so to get faster services, while 36% paid bribes because
they would otherwise not obtain the service. A 2012 World Bank
reportindicates that 12% of the funds allocated for public procurement
(enough to create 250,000 jobs annually) went to bribes.
.2.Liberia
75% of Liberians stated that the had
paid a bribe to access government services. In addition, 96% said that
Parliament was very corrupt and 94% felt the police were extremely
corrupt. Deputy Police Director for Administration Rose Stryker has
attributedpolice corruption to low salaries. President Johnson Sirleaf
recently dismissed some top members of her administration for
corruption.
1. Sierra Leone
Among all the countries whose citizens
were polled, Sierra Leone has the highest percentage of respondents
(84%) who said they had paid a bribe in order to get government
services. 79% of the respondents consider the police as corrupt, while
74% consider the judiciary as corrupt. Richard Konteh, President Ernest
Bai Koroma’s chief of staff, dismissed the report saying TI
misunderstands Sierra Leone’s cultural practice of giving chiefs kola
in appreciation for their services. This 2011 investigation by Al
Jazeera shows alleged collusion of top government officials in corrupt
and illegal export of natural resources like timber.
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