Nigeria ranked 144th most corrupt nation

Posted by admin Latest Politics Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013

Nigeria has been ranked 144th most corrupt country as Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia are seen as the world’s most corrupt countries while Denmark and New Zealand are nearly squeaky-clean, graft watchdog Transparency International said in a survey yesterday.

The report shows that Nigeria has slipped in the organization’s 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index,

In the current report, Nigeria scored 25 while it scored 27 in 2012 with a percentile rank of 16 per cent out of 100. Nigeria scored 0.992708873. In 2012 Nigeria was ranked 139th most corrupt nation. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be and the country is ranked at 144 out of 177 countries included in the report.

Worldwide, almost 70 per cent of nations are thought to have a “serious problem” with public servants on the take and none of the 177 countries surveyed this year got a perfect score, said the Berlin-based non-profit group.

Transparency International’s annual list is the most widely used indicator of sleaze in political parties, police, justice systems and civil services, a scourge which undermines development and the fight against poverty. “Corruption hurts the poor most,” lead researcher Finn Heinrich told AFP.

“That’s what you see when you look at the countries at the bottom. Within those countries, it’s also poor people who get hurt the most. These countries will never get out of the poverty trap if they don’t tackle corruption.”

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