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09-24-08 Jinggoy chides GMA for RP’s lowest-ever score in anti-corruption efforts
Posted: September 28th, 2008 @ 8:39pm
Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada took President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to task for the Philippines’ getting its lowest score ever in the fight against corruption among the world’s nations.
Estrada noted the results of the study by international anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI) released on September 23 which showed that the Philippines was perceived as more corrupt now than any previous year.
“Why is the Philippines consistently landing on top of the list in local and international corruption reports, Mrs. President, when your administration continuously brags of fighting corruption?” Estrada, chair of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development, and of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Labor and Employment, asked.
The TI’s 2008 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) showed that the Philippines got a score of 2.3 this year – down by 0.2% from 2.5 in 2007, registering it as the lowest for the country since 1995 when the first CPI was devised as a tool for a country’s resolve in fighting corruption. CPI has been used by the group to measure the perception of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and analysts.
In this year’s CPI rating of 180 countries from 0 to 10 – where a grade of 10 means the country is perceived as very clean while a rating of 0 means the country is perceived as very corrupt – the Philippines, getting the 2.3 score, ranked 141st and was behind most of its ASEAN neighbors.
Singapore, with a 9.2 rating, was in 2nd place while Malaysia got 5.1 to land on the 47th place. Thailand is in the 80th spot with a rating of 3.5 while Vietnam is in the 121st place with a 2.7 score. Indonesia, which ranked lower than the Philippines last year, was in 126th place with a rating of 2.6. (Denmark, New Zealand and Sweden, with equal scores of 9.3, were in 1st place).
“Corruption, especially in recent years, is one of the major reasons why our country has not prospered and even sunk in destitution. Corruption, seen as involving the highest offices of the government, has already robbed several billions of pesos that should have been used to uplift the lives of our countrymen, or at least, rescue them from the deepening hunger, poverty and deprivation,” Estrada lamented.
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