Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says that instead of the government unleashing criticism of its four years of consecutive negative reviews on Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI), it should look at ways to improve its ranking.
He believes that denouncing the findings emboldens those who are corrupt as they may feel that unlawful acts fall on deaf ears.
“An improvement in a country’s CPI score as well as its ranking is considered an indicator of a reduction in the level of corruption. The first step in the fight against corruption therefore must be the acknowledgement of the existence of corruption and the extent to which it is perceived to exist,” Goolsarran stated in his “Accountability” column published today.