Nigeria has
been ranked by “Transparency International” as the 136th among 168 least
corrupt countries in the world, with a score of 26 per cent.
The ranking,
which was for 2015, was released on Wednesday and showed that Nigeria dropped
by one point in the TI index, which rated countries on a scale of zero
(perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be least corrupt). In
2014, the nation was also ranked 136th among 176 countries, but scored 27 per
cent.
The TI, which
has published the ‘Corruption Perceptions Index’ since 1995, defines corruption
as “the misuse of public power for private benefits.”
Denmark, Finland, Sweden,
New Zealand and The Netherlands were in the top five on the list, with their
scores given as 91, 90, 89, 88 and 87 per cent, respectively.
No African country is in
the first 10. Those in the group include Norway, Switzerland, Singapore and
Canada. Germany, Luxemburg and United Kingdom were ranked 10th.
Ghana is ranked 56th out of
168 countries with a score of 47 per cent, marginally down from a score of 48
per cent in 2014. The rankings of other African countries showed Guinea, Kenya
and Uganda in the 139th position with 25 per cent; Congo Republic was 146th
with 23 per cent; and Chad in 147th, scoring 22 per cent.
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