Corruption Perception Index 2010: Africa.

Transparency International has released it’s 2010 Corruption Perception Index. It must be stated, that this report is based only on ‘perceptions’, so there is no definitive statement to be made, despite data coming from serial compilers of such knowledge like The Economist Intelligence Unit and the World Bank.

In recent times, corruption on the continent has had a lot of exposure in the ills it causes, such as in Cote d’Ivoire where clandestine road tolls cost the Ivorian economy US$600 million, or the Mayor of Nairobi being charged with a KSh 283.2 million fraud charge, and what should be an example to the whole continent, the successful implementation of the Rwanda 2003 Constitution that has made corruption negligible.

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