Buhari’s Integrity On Focus As Transparency International Releases 2019 Corruption Index

President Muhammadu Buhari’s famed Integrity Quotient will come under  scrutiny on Thursday as the 2019 Corruption Perception Index, CPI for the country is launched by the Nigeria chapter of Transparency International.

President Buhari came to power in 2015 with anti-corruption one of three key agenda of his campaign.

However, after three successive years in power between 2015 and 2018 the country’s corruption perception has largely not been positively altered.

Thursday’s launch will add armour to critics and supporters of the president on his efforts.

Published annually since 1995 by TI, the CPI scores countries from 100 (very clean) to 0 (high perceived rate of corruption, highly corrupt).

It ranks countries based on their public sector corruption analyzed by experts and opinions by the general public with the major aim of stopping bribery and every form of public corruption.

Countries are ranked by position relative to other countries in the index.

Through the course of Nigeria’s corruption perception assessment since 2012, the country has averaged a score of 26.7 with its highest score at 28 in 2016 and lowest at 25 in 2013.

In the 2018 CPI, Nigeria scored 27 out of 100 points, maintaining the same score as in the 2017 CPI, indicating that Nigeria was still perceived as highly corrupt, and although the ranking showed that Nigeria moved up four (4) places, it only meant that four other countries scored worse while Nigeria stagnated.

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