Corruption: SAâs new metric of national shame
By Mushtak Parker
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Ex-president Jacob Zuma had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the courthouse in Pietermaritzburg to face charges including 18 counts of racketeering, corruption, fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.
Last Wednesday he finally appeared before the judge pleading not guilty to the charges.
On the same day Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize issued an unusual 6-page media briefing â tantamount to a departmental mea culpa and ongoing âindependent investigationâ relating to a R150m âirregularâ contract given by his Ministry to Digital Vibes, which was allegedly grossly overpriced.
Are Zumaâs trial and Mkhizeâs confessional âa defining moment for South Africaâ and the independence of its judicial and governance processes?
The anti-graft crusade of the administration is falling to pieces
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the suspension of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Managing Director, Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman over allegations of non-remittance of operating surpluses from 2016 to 2020 to the tune of over a hundred billion. While there are also counter-allegations of impropriety against the transportation minister, Mr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, it is not lost on Nigerians that members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that came to power to ‘fight corruption’ are squealing on one another. In the process, this administration is now buffeted by several scandals.
Last week, the Senate Committee on Finance chaired by a member of the ruling APC raised the alarm that some government-owned agencies have failed to remit over N2trn to the federation account from 2014 till date. The monumental scandal running into hundreds of billions of naira in the Niger Delta Development Commissio
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Published on: Friday, January 29, 2021
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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia dropped six spots to 57th position among 180 countries in the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2020.
Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) President Dr Muhammad Mohan said Malaysia’s score also deteriorated to 51 out of 100 points on the CPI survey.
“We may have dropped by two points which is statistically insignificant, but the drop in score and position is a cause of concern. We need to improve and I am sure we can do better than countries like Rwanda, Poland and so forth,” he said.
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He said this in a virtual press conference to announce Malaysia’s CPI for 2020. The CPI was released by Transparency International, the global anti-corruption coalition, Thursday.
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