I asked in Parliament yesterday whether Malaysia is heading for the worst Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) ranking and score in 15 years when TI CPI 2009 is announced in the next few days.
I had expected poor results for Malaysia both in CPI ranking and score, with Malaysia slipping further in ranking from No. 47 to may be No. 50 and to fall to the lowest CPI score ever of 4.8.
But my worst fears had been exceeded when the Berlin-based TI just announced that Malaysia had plunged nine places from last year’s 47th CPI ranking to 56th position while Malaysia CPI index score plunged to the lowest in 15 years to 4.5 when Malaysia’s previous worst scores below 5 were 4.8 in 2000 and 4.9 in 2002.
This is a national shame and major blow for Najib’s premiership I have no doubt that the mysterious death of DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock on July 16, who went to the 14th floor MACC headquarters as a healthy, vigorous, idealistic young man to give his co-operation as a witness but ended up as a corpse on the 5th floor of the building and the the MACC role as Umno catspaw to declare war on Pakatan Rakyat instead of declaring war on corruption were major factors for Malaysia’s worst-ever TI CPI ranking and score.
Will there be any response from Najib to the shocking TI CPI 2009 ranking and score?
From AP BERLIN – RANKINGS of the top and bottom nations studied by corruption watchdog Transparency International for its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, released on Tuesday. The index score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts and ranges between zero, which is highly corrupt, and 10, which is very clean. 1. New Zealand 9.4 2. Denmark 9.3 =3. Singapore 9.2 =3. Sweden 9.2 5. Switzerland 9.0 =6. Finland 8.9 =6. Netherlands 8.9 =8. Australia 8.7 =8. Canada 8.7 =8. Iceland 8.7 11. Norway 8.6 12. Hong Kong 8.2 =12. Luxembourg 8.2 14. Germany 8.0 =14. Ireland 8.0 . . . 162. Angola 1.9 =162. Congo Republic 1.9 =162. Congo Democratic Republic 1.9 =162. Guinea-Bissau 1.9 =162. Kyrgyzstan 1.9 = 162. Venezuela 1.9 168. Burundi 1.8 =168. Equatorial Guinea 1.8 =168. Guinea 1.8 =168. Haiti 1.8 =168. Iran 1.8 =168. Turkmenistan 1.8 174. Uzbekistan 1.7 175. Chad 1.6 176. Iraq 1.5 =176. Sudan 1.5 178. Myanmar 1.4 179. Afghanistan 1.3 180. Somalia 1.1 AFP