9 Responses to “Corruption in Africa on the Decline, World Bank rejects “Afro-pessimism””

1. Debbie K Says: July 11th, 2007 at 9:12 pm How can I thank you, Porter, for sharing with us this most recent report on African governance standards? The info in the World Bank report I don’t think is a surprise for those of us who have been active in the movement to make extreme poverty history for awhile. I think that we all have read similar reports or have heard from our contacts in Africa that things are slowly getting better for democracy there. But to have it delineated and promulgated by the World Bank - now that is something special….and useful for us. We need to ALL get copies of this report or at least read summaries of it so that we’ll all be familiar with its contents whenever we visit a Congressperson’s office so that they can’t use the mantra of “African governmental corruption” as the reason why they don’t put more money into programs like the MCA, Global Fund, etc. We now have the tools available to us to break down the wall of stereotypes about African governments - LET’S MAKE SURE TO USE THEM! Porter, this helped to make my day. Thank you.~ Take very good care of each other. Blessings abound - just look around. ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie

2. RockGille Says: July 13th, 2007 at 9:39 am There was an article in the NYTimes today about an Oxford Professor’s approach to improving Government Transparency (particularly in the Developing World). I thought that it was relevant… so here’s the link (I hope someone at ONE reads this). http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/business/worldbusiness/12scene.html?em&ex=1184472000&en=bf19db174216e61a&ei=5087%0A Of particular interest was the EITI in Britain. I had no idea such an initiative was started. I apologize if this is old news to everyone else, but is this initiative being advanced by ONE? Is this being shouted from the rooftops?

3. Ilemobade Says: July 14th, 2007 at 8:30 pm It is another thing to always speak of corruption and it is another thing not to act against it. In Yoruba tradional philosophy. A thief is not the only person that committed the crime but those who have access to the stolen items and helped the thief to conceal the stolen goods are also guilty of the same crime. That’s the situation in Nigeria. We all know that certain politicians in Africa never had a foreign account before being elected or appointed into governance. But as soon as they were elected, they will open a foreign bank account in US, England, Germany, France and Switzerland. This is the account that they will use to siphon their country resources. I think it is possible for the countries mentioned above to enact a law that will make any elected or appointed political office holder to forfeit any foreign account opened and operated in his name or in the name of his business organisation during his or her political tenure. I think that the only reason why such person can get their money back is only if the account remain dormant based on the number of years the person (politician)remain in office. What if the company is a corporation? I will say that any African politician who wants to serve or run for public office should first resign his appointment in the corporation and it should be mandatory that the person sell the shares he or she owned so that the corporation is not used to siphon public money, such shares should not be transferable to anybody. It is easier to still money in Africa, especially in Nigeria because majority of the people are ignorant and those who knows are easily bought by the corrupt politicians. What am I hearing? It was in the news this morning that Mr Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, Nigeria is being arraingned by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for money laundering and siphoning the public money worth more than three Billion naira, and it was reported that the United States government was pressurring the Nigerian government not to prosecute Kalu and other corrupt governors. I don’t have anything more to say than to realize that if Gerald Ford felt that Nixon should not be in jail, why should we (Nigerians) allow our former corrupt governors to be in jail? If the US still offer sanctuary and freedom to those who run away from their country from facing charges related to using public money to enrich themselves personally, I think it is high time we should gag the preacher that teaches that listen to what I say but don’t look at what I practised. Thanks! Oyedun Ilemobade Lagos, Nigeria

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8. martin1856 Says: April 14th, 2008 at 5:52 am An effective tool to combat corruption is to create a who is who index of the corrupt in each country and town. A lot of information is available in the Internet, but its fragmented and difficult to use. An index of the corrupt with a post for each individual name photo curriculum crimes etc is the way to go to make information easy to use for everybody Here goes an example from Uruguay http://corrupcion-uruguay.blogspot.com

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