Kenya’s war on corruption not yet lost

NAIROBI: Kenya ranks at position 139 out of 169 in the recently published Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2015 by Transparency International. This marks a slight improvement from position 45 out of 175 countries globally in CPI 2014, even though the score remains at 25 per cent in the two surveys.

This score is however low compared to Africa’s best performing country Botswana, with 69 per cent at position 28 out of 169, or even the best in the East Africa, Rwanda with 54 per cent at position 44 out of 169. As a ray of the first hope, it should be factored that the CPI measures perceptions and not actual corruption. Further, the 2015 CPI comes in the wake of national reawakening with anti-corruption as a national agenda.