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Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2007
Corruption Perceptions Index 2007 may stop President Kibaki’s
re-election
Less than 100 days to the Presidential election Transparency
International’s flagship Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2007 has been
published. Kenya’s score of 2.1 out of 10 (rank 150 out of 180) would
be classified by Transparency International as indicating rampant
corruption within the Government of Kenya. Not for the first time Kenya is
the lowest ranked East African Community country, but what will shock
some is that Kenya is for the first time lower ranked than Nigeria and
apparently as badly regarded as Zimbabwe. Unusually, the local
Transparency International chapter is not making a big fuss about the CPI 2007
results, which consequently hasn’t received its usual headline
treatment by the Kenyan press. For what it’s worth the Government
Spokesman is silent on Kenya’s poor ranking.
Who would have thought that Mwai Kibaki would be 100 days away from the
political battle of his life completely unable to even utter the word
‘corruption’ in his campaign speeches to the country?