{{The Burundi Ombudsman has told {Igihe.com} that his team is in Rwanda to familiarize themselves with Rwanda\u2019s success story in the fight against corruption. }} <\/p>\n
In November 2010 the world bank recognised Rwanda government\u2019s commitment to business reforms and the zero-tolerance approach to corruption making Rwanda a better place to do business each day. <\/p>\n
In the same year, Rwanda was ranked sixth less corrupt country in Africa and 66th globally in the Transparency International\u2019s global Corruption Perceptions Index 2010. <\/p>\n
Globally, the other East African Community states \u2013 Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Burundi are ranked as 116th, 127th, 154th and 170th, respectively.<\/p>\n
The Corruption Perception Index helps to highlight the propensity of domestic corruption and its damaging influence. <\/p>\n
Exclusively speaking to {Igihe.com}, Donavine Niyongabire, the Cabinet Chief in the Burundi\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the previous presidential elections, our president talked about corruption saying it\u2019s a major issue he will address during the next five years of his term”. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Corruption Perception index previously confined to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, expanded to include Rwanda and Burundi in 2010.<\/p>\n
According to the 2010 East African Bribery Index Burundi is on the top position with a corruption prevalence of 36.7%.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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%.<\/p>\n
The East African Bribery Index is a governance tool developed to measure bribery levels in the private and public sectors in the region. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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