January 26, 2022
By: Mohamed Jalloh
Sierra Leone has again for the third time in three years under the Bio government progressed upwards in Transparency International Global Corruption Country Rankings, moving from 117 in 2020 to 115 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2021 Transparency International Corruption perception Index (TI-CPI).
The country also increases its 2020 score of 33 to 34 in 2021, which is again above the sub Saharan average, and the highest the country has ever recorded since the CPI rankings was introduced.
The 2021 CPI, released on the 25th January 2022 reveals that Sierra Leone continues to make remarkable progress in the world`s most respected corruption watchdog`s assessment and rankings.
The country now leapfrogs 64 countries in the global campaign against corruption and beats 32 African countries including Nigeria and Egypt.
This year`s report reveals that corruption has blossomed worldwide.
Over the last decade and this year 27 countries are at historic lows in their CPI score.
Nonetheless, Sierra Leone performed better than the average score in sub-Saharan Africa for the second year and has consistently improved in the past four years.
The CPI is an annual survey used by Transparency international, the leading global civil society watchdog on the global fight against corruption, to assess comparative perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries across the world.
It should be noted that Sierra Leone has consistently increased its score in the control of corruption indicator in the millennium Challenge Corporation score card, moving from 49% in 2017 to 83% in 2021, making a 34% upwards.
Similar exponential jumps have been recorded in other respected global corruption measurement institutions such as Afrobarometer which confirmed that corruption prevalence has considerably reduced from 70% in 2015 to a latest low of 40% in 2020.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has reassured all Sierra Leoneans of its continued and consistent determination to ensure the country continues to enjoy a favorable score every anti-corruption governance indices around the world.