By HARLYNE JOKU

PNG has fallen back 13 places in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for this year.
“Last year, PNG was ranked 130 out of 163 countries and this year we are ranked 162 out of 180 countries so effectively our ranking has dropped 13 places,” TI PNG’s Richard Kassman said, when announcing the CPI yesterday.
Mr Kassman said PNG had sadly fallen in ranking reflecting the perceived level of corruption due to many outstanding issues facing past and present governments that had not been addressed properly.
“The rating was still not good enough. We should be improving rather than dropping,” Mr Kassman said.
He urged MPs to work together and provide leadership in dealing with the issues of corruption and poor governance.
Mr Kassman said the misuse of public funds, fraud, dishonesty, wantokism, stolen money, failure to keep proper financial accounts, conflicts of interest, questionable public appointments to positions of trust, public servants’ disregard for the laws and welfare of the State and failure to keep proper financial accounts among others, are examples of corruption.
He added that the media had exposed a number of issues of governance and corruption over the years and the drop in the CPI rating was not a surprise.

 

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