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Monrovia — Barely a day after President George Weah’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), his administration has been slapped in the face with the latest corruption index report.
In his SONA, the president said his government made significant strides in fighting corruption. He said they have empowered autonomous agencies tasked with fighting corruption responsibility.
Contrary to his assertion, Transparency International has hit Weah’s administration harder with the latest corruption index report. The report shows an enormous decline in government officials’ efforts to fight corruption.
Liberia is presently the 142 least corrupt nation out of 180 countries, with 26 points scored, according to the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International.
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The country previously sat at 136 least corrupt countries out of 180 nations, with 29 points scored, according to the same report in 2021. The Corruption Perceptions Index score range from 0 to 100. Zero is the lowest, and a hundred is the highest.
This breakdown means Liberia’s most recent score is 26 out of 100 percent. This report comes months after the United States last year imposed sanctions on three Liberian government officials, including Weah’s chief of staff, for what it said was their ongoing involvement in public corruption.
“The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s rank indicates its position relative to the other countries and territories in the index.”
In related news, the president of the Republic of Liberia said he would soon ask Liberians to vote for him for the second time. Would this latest report serve as an obstacle to his reelection in 2023?
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