The Burundi Ombudsman has told Igihe.com that his team is in Rwanda to familiarize themselves with Rwanda’s success story in the fight against corruption.
In November 2010 the world bank recognised Rwanda government’s commitment to business reforms and the zero-tolerance approach to corruption making Rwanda a better place to do business each day.
In the same year, Rwanda was ranked sixth less corrupt country in Africa and 66th globally in the Transparency International’s global Corruption Perceptions Index 2010.
Globally, the other East African Community states – Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Burundi are ranked as 116th, 127th, 154th and 170th, respectively.
The Corruption Perception Index helps to highlight the propensity of domestic corruption and its damaging influence.
Exclusively speaking to Igihe.com, Donavine Niyongabire, the Cabinet Chief in the Burundi’s office of the Ombudsman said that Burundis anticipated target is Zero tolerance to corruption. This follows a pleadge by President Pierre Nkurunziza during recent presidential campaigns.
“In the previous presidential elections, our president talked about corruption saying it’s a major issue he will address during the next five years of his term”.
She explained that Burundi government will deal with corruption using the possible measures like other countries have used in sighting a good example of Rwanda.
The Corruption Perception index previously confined to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, expanded to include Rwanda and Burundi in 2010.
According to the 2010 East African Bribery Index Burundi is on the top position with a corruption prevalence of 36.7%.
Uganda comes second with a corruption prevalence of 33%, while Kenya takes the third position after registering an improvement, by moving from a prevalence rate of 45% in 2009 to 31.9% this year.
Tanzania is fourth with a prevalence of 28.6% while Rwanda is the least corrupt country in the region with a corruption prevalence of 6.6%.
The East African Bribery Index is a governance tool developed to measure bribery levels in the private and public sectors in the region.
The survey was conducted among thousands of respondents selected through random household sampling across all the administrative provinces in the five countries between January and March 2010.
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