Transparency International (TI) released their East African Bribery Index for 2010 this week ranking Burundi in the first place as the most corrupt country in the region, Uganda second, Kenya third and Tanzania fourth.
Rwanda was considered the least corrupt of the East African countries.
The police forces for Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya have been named under the top five most corrupt institutions for the region.
The East African Bribery Index is a governance tool developed to measure bribery levels in the private and public sectors in the region. The survey was conducted among 10,505 respondents selected through random household sampling across all the administrative provinces in the five countries between January and March 2010.
Three police forces on corruption list
According to the EABI the Revenue Authority in Burundi was the most corrupt institution in the region. Last year the Kenya Police held the first place. The police ...
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Transparency International (TI) released their East African Bribery Index for 2010 this week ranking Burundi in the first place as the most corrupt country in the region, Uganda second, Kenya third and Tanzania fourth.
Rwanda was considered the least corrupt of the East African countries.
The police forces for Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya have been named under the top five most corrupt institutions for the region.
The East African Bribery Index is a governance tool developed to measure bribery levels in the private and public sectors in the region. The survey was conducted among 10,505 respondents selected through random household sampling across all the administrative provinces in the five countries between January and March 2010.
Three police forces on corruption list
According to the EABI the Revenue Authority in Burundi was the most corrupt institution in the region. Last year the Kenya Police held the first place. The police force in Burundi comes second, followed by the Kenya Police, the Uganda Revenue Authority and Tanzania Police in that order.
Others on the list include the Uganda Police, the Kenyan Ministry of Defence, the Nairobi City Council and the judiciary in Kenya and Tanzania.
According to the survey perceptions of corruption in Kenya have not changed much. About 90% of respondents described Kenya as being “between corrupt and extremely corrupt.”
Rwanda least corrupt
Eighty-four percent of Rwandan respondents labeled their country as slightly corrupt while only 12% said the country was either corrupt or extremely corrupt.
Both Tanzania and Burundi had 85% of the respondents rating their countries as corrupt or extremely corrupt while only eight percent of those sampled in Burundi perceived their country as slightly corrupt.
The EABI further highlights the fact that the reporting of corruption still rarely happens. In Uganda 93% of respondents said they have not reported bribery, as did 92.9% of Tanzanian respondents, 92% in Burundi and 89% in Kenya.
Anti-corruption stance essential
“East African countries need to scrutinize their service delivery mechanisms with the objective of rooting out practices such as corruption that are impeding the accessibility of basic services,” said the Transparency International-Kenya Executive Director, Samuel Kimeu. “This will promote equality, development and the reduction of poverty in the region,” he added during the launch attended by the heads of the other four TI national chapters in East Africa.
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