Aquino extols self in Transparency Int’l corruption survey
10/28/2010Going by its principle to always look at the glass half-full instead of the other way around, President Aquino and his administration once again took the credit with re-gard to the recent improve-ment of the country’s ranking based on the latest global cor-ruption survey of Transparency International despite the glaring fact that TI also ranked the Philippines as one of the “highly corrupt” countries.
Despite improving from 139th last year to 134th this year, however, the Philippines is still being considered even as the most corrupt nation in Southeast Asia as it continues to lag far behind its neighboring countries such as Malaysia (56th), Thailand (78th), Indonesia (110th) and Vietnam (116th), according to the corruption perception index (CPI) report of TI.
At a press conference with reporters who joined his trip to Vietnam, Aquino mentioned that this report gives a “momentum” for his administration to continue the steps they are taking toward the elimination of corruption in the country.
“As I maintained during my presidential campaign, we will need to eliminate corruption if we want our country to move forward,” he said.
For his part, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda claimed that the fact that the Philippines’ ranking improved by five notches indicates that the current administration’s determination to promote good governance is working..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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