The Nigerian government has again rejected the assessment of Buhari administration by Transparency International (TI).
PREMIUM TIMES reported how Nigeria dropped in the 2020 corruption ranking released by Transparency International (TI) last month.
An indicator that corruption is perceived to have worsened in the country within the last one year, the country dropped three places and scored lower in number of points than in its previous year’s record.
The latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) says Nigeria scored 25/100 which is by one point less than its 26 points in the previous year.
It says Nigeria is now 149 out of 180 countries, a record that is three steps lower than its rank of 146 in 2019.
In the 2018 index, Nigeria rose by four places on the index from 148 to 144.
When the report was first released, the Nigerian government had said the report did not adequately reflect the government’s anti-corruption effort.
On Wednesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja, described the rating as unfair and unacceptable.
He said: “I think that I’m aware of that particular rating which was not quite flattering to Nigeria, but our position, which I’ve declared before is that that rating does not truly reflect the great strides that the administration has made in the area of fighting corruption”.
Credit: premiumtimesng.com
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