Corruption Worsens – GCB

The tenth edition of the Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Africa, has revealed that 72 percent of Malawians think corruption levels increased over the past 12 months.

The survey, whose release coincided with African Anti-Corruption Day was conducted by Transparency International in collaboration with Afro-barometer, from July-September 2018.

Despite government touting its efforts to fight corruption, on the ground; 78 percent of Malawians believe that the government is actually doing a bad job in tackling corruption.

As in the previous 2015 study, the Malawi Police Service is considered the most corrupt institution. While the global average stands at 47 percent of people believing that most or all police are corrupt; in Malawi, this figure rises to 56 percent up from 35 percent in 2015.

The President and business executives come second at 47 percent, followed by government and local government officials, Members of Parliament, chiefs, judges and magistrates and NGOs.

The study also shows more than 25 percent of people who accessed public services such as health care and education paid a bribe in the previous year.

It further showed that while in 2015, 68 percent of respondents believed that ordinary people could do something to end corruption, the figures have since dipped to 47 percent.