Tanzania has gone up one place in corruption ranking, according to the survey carried by the regional NGO -Concern for Development Initiatives in Africa (ForDIA) in collaboration with Tanzania Transparency Forum – TRAFO.
The survey conducted between July and August, last year says Burundi is the most corrupt country in East Africa. Uganda and Kenya become in the third and fourth place respectively, while Rwanda maintained her firth position, in the East African Bribery Index 2014, launched in Dar es Salaam recently.
Tanzania had bribe rates of 19 percent up from 12.9 percent last year and Burundi had bribe rates of 19.4 percent up from 18.6 percent.
Uganda which was named the EAC most corrupt-prone country in 2013 with bribe rates of 26.9 percent had dropped to 17.9 percent with Kenya recording 12.3 percent up from 7.9 percent.
Rwanda registered an improvement with 2.9 percent during the 2014 region corruption barometer down from 4.4 percent last year.
Though the police in Uganda recorded a highest rate in the region (84 percent), their Tanzania counterpart topped the second with 82 percent.
Alongside the police, Tanzanian judiciary remained amongst top ten most corrupt – prone institution in the country.
The report ranked other institutions that includes, Land services (35.7 percent), Natural resources (34.2 percent), licence registration services (18 percent), water and electricity (15.6 percent), health services (15.2 percent), Tax (14.4 percent), education (12.2 percent) and local government (12 percent).
The report identified that 91 percent of those who responded revealed that they did not offer information to the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) or the police.
“About 28 percent of all who did not give information (the 91 percent-group) said they don’t trust the performance of the two institutions,” the report said in inter alia.
The report further states that, 80 percent of respondents said that the situation of corruption in the country was on the increase.
The survey also revealed poor efforts for both the government and the public to address corruption practices in the country. At least 2500 respondents were interviewed from the Tanzania Mainland and Isles.
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