Transparency International (TI) has rated the out-going
government of President Goodluck Jonathan as the best compared to the past
governments headed President-Elect Muhammadu Buhari and that of Olusegun
Obasanjo.
According to the
analysis done by Pointblank news, it stated that in TI’s data from 1979 till
date, the tenures of both Buhari and Obasanjo were more corrupt than the tenure
of Jonathan. Continue
The data also showed
that under the administration of Jonathan, Nigeria recorded its best score in
the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) since 1979.
But the point that the figures from Transparency
International make so clearly is that, in comparative terms, Nigeria is
actually much less corrupt today, and perceived globally to be much less
corrupt today, than it has been in the last 35 years – including under the
regimes of Buhari and Obasanjo, both of
who are in support of anti-corruption.
Shockingly, according to the TI data, Obasanjo’s first
tenure had the worst scale of corruption during the 35 years period between
1979 and 2015.
The TI Corruption
Perception Index is a rating of countries from 1 to 100 showing their
corruption scale. A rating of 1 is the worst and rating of 100 means a country
is completely free of corruption. The pass mark is 50 and any country scoring
below 50 is considered a corrupt country.
In the year 2000,
Nigeria was ranked the most corrupt country in the world and improved
marginally in 2001 and 2003 when it was rated the second most corrupt nation in
the world in the TI’s Corruption Perception Index. This was certainly not under
the watch of President Jonathan.
Since 2012, Nigeria
has made steady improvements in the CPI. Indeed, under President Jonathan, for
the first time in decades, Nigeria is not in the list of 1-10 most corrupt
countries in the world.
In the 2014
Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, issued in December,
Nigeria was ranked 136 out of 175 countries surveyed in the report. This
ranking placed Nigeria, alongside five other countries, as the 39th most
corrupt country in the world. This is Nigeria’s best ranking in the last four
years.
With this ranking,
Nigeria leap frogged eight countries within a space of one year from the 31st
most corrupt nation in 2013 to the 39th in 2014. This may be regarded by cynics
as a small achievement: but it represents a big step in the right direction.
Indeed, the
administration of President Jonathan deserves some commendation for the
positive steps it has taken, and the modest achievements it has made so far, in
the war against corruption rather than the vengeful knocks it is receiving from
various quarters.
Apparently it appears that this media are an ardent
supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan but with the details by the TI, it is
something to consider critically. Is GMB administration going to be different
this time around or should we expect something worse than the previous led
administration
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