The 2018 Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International earlier today has ranked Uganda as the second most-corrupt country in the East African region, only behind Burundi. And of the 180 countries that were analysed by the global watchdog organisation, Uganda emerged 149th, while Burundi was at Number. 170.
Rwanda was East Africa’s best performer, ranking at Number 48, while Tanzania at Number 99 was the region’s only other representative among the best-performing 100 countries. Kenya was slightly better-positioned than Uganda at Number 144.
To come up with the scores for each country, according to the Executive Director of Transparency International Uganda, Dr. Peter Wandera, Transparency International looked at several areas using data it sourced from different organisations operating in the different countries of the world. Then each country was marked out of 100, with the higher the country scored representing that country’s good performance as regards fighting corruption.
Uganda scored a paltry 26%, less than half of Rwanda’s 56%.
Peter Wandera said that a good ranking on the corruption perception index is important because international donors and businessmen always prefer to work woth those countries that have a good score, shunning those with bad scores.
However yet, it was a slight improvement for Uganda, which last year ranked 151st out of 177 countries.
