Transparency International Corruption Perception Index 2009

Amidst a surging global economy, rising environmental challenges,poverty and food crisis ,corruption continues to pervade most human societies.This is revealed in the annual global corruption and country indices report prepared by Transparency international. The 2009 Transparency international Corruption Index released on Tuesday in Berlin,Germany indicates " that no region of the world is immune to the perils of corruption".

As usual this blog has always taken an interest in the corruption index and makes it a point to discuss the report on annual basis. In this years Corruption Index Kenya has improved with a point from 2008 where its corruption perception index was placed at 2.1 to 2.2 in 2009.Indicating that there has been some relative improvement. The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is used in  measuring the perceived level of public-sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The CPI is a "survey of surveys", based on 13 different expert and business surveys.The survey involved a random sampling of 3500 households between April and May 2009.


It is good to note that among public institutions that have drastically improved include the Kenya Ports Authorities and Private Universities. New entrants include the Ministry of Public Works, the National Hospital Insurance Fund(NHIF),the National Social Security Fund(NSSF) and the Teachers Service Commission. This revelation leaves many Kenyans worried as such institutions directly relate to their preset and future well being.The top 20 most corrupt institutions in East Africa(i.e Kenya Uganda and Tanzania) according to the report by rank were:

• 1.Kenya Police
• 2.Tanzania Police
• 3.Ministry of Defence-Kenya
• 4.Judiciary/Courts-Tanzania
• 5.Uganda Police
• 6.Immigration-Tanzania
• 7.Uganda Revenue Authority
• 8.Judiciary-Kenya
• 9.Uganda Public Service
• 10.Ministry of Defence-Uganda
• 11.Ministry of Public Works-Kenya
• 12.Northern Uganda Social Action Fund-Uganda
• 13.Ministry of Lands-Kenya
• 14.Judiciary-Uganda
• 15.Nairobi City Council-Kenya
• 16.Ministry of Labour-Kenya
• 17.TANAPA-Tanzania Mombasa City Council-Kenya
• 19.Mulago Hospital-Uganda
• 20.Umeme-Uganda

Interestingly 90% of those surveyed in Kenya ranked Kenya as being between corrupt and extremely corrupt indicating why the fight against corruption should receive serious concerns for all of us.Since in essence corruption is carried out by individuals.As a lot Kenyans were seen as pessimistic as to whether corruption would decline in the next coming year.

In Africa  Botswana is placed a the least corrupt Country at 5.6 points followed by South Africa at 4.7 and and Namibia 4.5.    In East Africa Ethiopia is perceived as the Least corrupt in the Transparency internationals report followed by Tanzania. Sudan and Somalia are almost placed in the same margin which is quite an indictment.You can download the East Africa Bribery Index report(PDF)at the following link EABI LINK

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Harmonized Draft Constitution(Kenya) 2009 Download

You can now be able to read the Harmonized Draft Constitution 2009 submitted by the Committee of Experts.The draft was released to the public and the media at launch held at the Kenya International Conference Center, plenary hall this morning.Unfortunately the download link for the Kenyan Draft Constitution website at www.coekenya.go.ke  is not functioning at the moment probably due to the massive number of visits from interested persons.Kenyans are invited to read the draft,debate on it and make their submissions to the Committee of Experts.

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Mars Group Kenya Website Upgrade

The public and anti corruption  watchdog Mars Group Kenya has relaunched/upgraded its website to an all new template that is pleasant to look at and quite user friendly. The new Mars Group website has an appealing interface that will feature among other things a column dubbed "MarsTv" which will have multi media clips of  news and pertinent information  of concern to the watchdog's objectives.This blog takes the opportunity to unveil the all  new look Mars Group Kenya website screenshot  as shown hereunder and invites you to visit the domain.

The anti corruption watchdog is run by among other people the former Transparency International Executive Director Mwalimu Mati now turned activist. Kudos to the developer and webmaster. The site has featured as a worthy resource in the fight against corruption, accountability and governance and has been previously dubbed by this blog as "Kenya's online ombudsman".