Transparency International’s Corruption Rating Of Nigeria Is Very Wrong – FG

The Federal Government has come out to say that Nigeria’s low rating in the 2020 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI) doesn’t truly reflect the improvement in the nation’s fight against corruption.

This was recently revealed in a statement issued in Abuja by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

According to him, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agenda has placed huge emphasis on corruption prevention measures since Buhari was elected, and he definitely deserves credit for it.

He added that even in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of key transparency and accountability policies were developed and are currently being implemented to ensure Nigeria is corruption-free.

His words, “For instance, following the release of the 2019 TI-Corruption PerceptionIndex, the government initiated reforms to improve on Nigeria’s Ease of Doing Business indices.”

“This is because we found that up to 40 per cent of the country’s corruption perception survey indices relates to business processes and general public service delivery processes.”

“Government’s swift action has led to major reforms in the processes at our ports and business process points.”

”In response to these evaluations, a number of significant policies havebeen instituted to enhance transparency and accountability and prevent corruption.”

“Even in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of key transparency and accountability policies were developed and are currently being implemented.”

”While we expect the results from these reforms to speak for us in due course, we are also taking measures to improve our data collection andretrieval on these issues to reduce the current under-reporting of our ongoing corruption reduction measures.”