Corruption: Cameroon still champion!

In its annual report published in mid-week, Transparency International ranks the country 130th out of 168 other nations, with a score of 27/100, the same as that harvested in 2014.

Cameroon has not progressed at all in the fight against corruption in 2015, and this has not escaped the NGO Transparency International, which has just published its annual report on the index of corruption perception ( ipc) in 168 countries worldwide in 2015.

The Cameroonian subsidiary of the German organization revealed yesterday during a press conference in Yaounde that Cameroon remains among the most corrupt countries in the world. "With a score of 27/100 (just as in 2014, 27/100), Cameroon is ranked 130th out of 168, a position she shares with five countries in the world, ranked 30th out of 46 African countries.

With this note, corruption is an endemic level in Cameroon, "analyzes bitterly Me Nguini Charles, President of Transparency International Cameroon. The green-red-yellow nation shares this position with Iran, Nepal, Ukraine, Nicaragua and Paraguay. Clearly, Cameroon continues to flounder in corruption and has made no progress to reap some points since the last publication in 2014, which placed him in an unfortunate 134th out of 175 countries. So it is treading water in the world as much as in Africa.

This note (27/100) which inherits the country of Paul Biya and the place in this execrable posture is generally symptomatic of a systematic use of bribes, lack of penalties for corruption and a mismatch between the services of the administration and the needs of the population.
"This ranking suggests once again in Cameroon, beyond the convictions of managers of public property, establishing legal mechanisms, political and public integrity that can effectively prevent public office holders to abuse their positions for their personal profits, "notes Charles Nguini.

Beyond the laxity of the authorities and impunity that promote the spread of corruption in Cameroon, TI-C also notes that "the non-ratification of the Convention of the African Union against corruption, non-application of Article 66 of the Constitution on the declaration of assets and property, the lack of an anti-corruption law punishes illicit enrichment, non-whistleblower protection ... "are among other parameters that promote rule of evil.

Methodology

The classification of countries around the Corruption Perceptions Index, which has an annual frequency is done in four steps on the basis of a collection of data from a number of different sources that give indications on perceptions that have the business community and national experts in the level of corruption in the public sector.

It is at first the selection of data sources that is taken into account if and only if it measures the perception of corruption in the public sector; is based on a reliable methodology and validates that class notes and several countries on the same scale, or from a credible and reputable institution. To do this, the Ipc 2015 was calculated using 12 different sources from 11 institutions that record the corruption perception indices on year.

One then counts the standardization of data sources on a scale from 0 to 100; 0 corresponding to the speaker perceived level of corruption and 100 at the lowest level. The calculations of the average rating, as the admission of a margin of error, are also included in the methodology of definition of IPC. Also, it must be remembered that in this ranking, which lists which lists 168 countries, the most corrupt in the most virtuous on a scale of 0-100, Denmark is at the top of virtuous nations, while the most corrupt countries in the world North Korea and Somalia.