The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has
condemned in strong terms, the 2019 Corruption Perception Index, released by
Transparency International, TI.
Nigeria dropped two steps below
on the 2019 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index.
In the latest release on Thursday, Nigeria ranked 146 out of
180 countries studied.
Reacting, the Commission said the rating was baseless.
The agency in a statement on its Twitter handle, described
as ‘appalling, the bogus and ambiguous criteria used by TI to arrive at its
conclusion.
“We insist that the rating is a far cry from the evident
strides and achievements so far accomplished by the anti-graft agency in the
fight against corruption, particularly under the administration of President
Muhammadu Buhari.
“The claim and inference that Nigeria ranks the fourth most
corrupt country in West Africa is totally unacceptable, as it is evidently not
supported by any empirical data, especially when placed side-by-side with the
remarkable achievements of the Commission in the past years.
“Moreover, it is quite ironic that the report by TI posits
that the index does not show real incidences of corruption, yet it claims that
the report is a reliable indication of the perception of Nigerians and the
international community about the state of corruption in the country, ” it
added.
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