Nigeria Still Very Corrupt Under Buhari – Transparency International

Transparency International (TI) has released its Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2018, with Nigeria perceived as still very corrupt as its last ranking. In the 2018 report, the country retained 27 out of 100 points it scored in the 2017 CPI.

Nigeria has “neither improved nor progressed in the perception of corruption in the public administration in 2018,” Transparency International said in the report that was released on Tuesday.

While Nigeria moved upward from 148 to 144 out of 180 countries that were surveyed in 2018, the global anti-corruption agency said the country remained corrupt as before because its CPI score remained the same for 2017 and 2018.

Other countries that shared the same position with Nigeria were – Kenya, Mauritania, Guatemala, and Comoros.

Speaking on the newly released the report, TI’s Managing Director, Patricia Moreira, said: “With many democratic institutions under threat across the globe – often by leaders with authoritarian or populist tendencies – we need to do more to strengthen checks and balances and protect citizens’ rights.

“Corruption chips away at democracy to produce a vicious cycle, where corruption undermines democratic institutions and, in turn, weak institutions are less able to control corruption.”

Below is the table highlighting the position and CPI score of countries surveyed below: