Top 10 Most Corrupt Nation in the World

Corruption is a hydra-headed monster that is eating up the abundant resources by which government should have better the lives of their people.Alarmingly,government display corrupt practices as if they are drinking water.In the public sector,corruption is rife and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it.

We here in Nigeria daily cries to high heaven at the unashamed act of corruption in the seat and corridors of power.The one on the front burner is the case of the aviation minister, Stella Oduah who was accused of buying two bullet proof cars at the cost of more than $200 million.The case has thus far become a ding-dong affair between the officials at FCAA,car dealer,Coscharis and the Finance ministry.

Our so-called leaders had for so long taken us for a ride and we have just be murmuring leaving everything to God.But may I tell you that Nigeria is not the only country that is stinking to high heaven with corruption.Forbes not too long ago,put together a list of top 10 nations that have make corruption their "partner in progress".

Here they are:


1: Somalia

When it comes to corruption, no nation can compare to Somalia. Pirates seize ships at will, the al-Shabaab movement terrorizes much of the country, and the ineffective Transitional National Government specializes in looting foreign aid intended for starving refugees. "The scale of the TFG’s financial hemorrhaging is so immense that the term ‘corruption’ seems barely adequate,” says U.N. monitor Matt Bryden.

2 North Korea

Narcotics, counterfeit bills and illegal weapons sales are just the way dictator Kim Jong-Il makes money from the rest of the world. Inside this secretive nation, government officials plunder their own citizenry by demanding bribes for everything from permits to run market food stalls to permission to leave one's hometown. With its hereditary form of government and rigid caste system, North Korea resembles a poor, nuclear-equipped version of Imperial Japan.


3 Myanmar

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's visit to Myanmar demonstrates a new willingness to engage with the country still known as Burma to the U.S., following the election of a civilian government last year. But the corruption, plundering of timber and other natural resources and political repression that led to sanctions are still rampant. One critic says the government is composed mostly of "generals who took off their uniforms.”

4: Afghanistan

The U.S. will be aggressively pulling down troops from Afghanistan next year, leaving its citizens at the mercy of a government that has so far shown no willingness to curb corruption. The Pentagon determined earlier this year that four of eight prime contractors in a $2.2 billion transportation program were funneling U.S. funds to the Taliban.


5 Uzbekistan

President Islam Karimov, an old Communist warhorse, controls the legislature, judiciary and media and keeps getting elected by suspiciously large margins – 88% of the vote in December 2007. With the government controlling large swaths of the economy, corruption and oppression are getting worse in the most populous nation in Central Asia. “Grades and degrees are routinely purchased” in the education system, according to the U.S. State Dept.


6: Turkmenistan


“Corruption is pervasive” in this resource-rich nation, says the State Dept., with power concentrated in the hands of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. The government controls most sectors of the economy including Turkmenistan’s vast natural gas reserves, which make the country the second-largest gas exporter in the former Soviet Union after Russia. Oil and gas surpluses are supposedly stored in a Stabilization Fund although Global Witness reports "there is no evidence, other than the president's word, that such a fund exists."


7: Sudan


Sudan: Leave aside the fact that Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and genocide. This resource-rich nation has a problem telling its citizens where their money’s going. Global Witness last year uncovered a $370 million discrepancy between what the China National Petroleum Company reported pumping from Sudanese fields and what the government reported receiving in royalties. It's a safe bet the money didn't go toward healthcare for the poor.


8: Iraq

Compared to the reign of Saddam Hussein, any government would look good. But Iraq's Shiite leaders are widely criticized by citizens for corrupt dealings that deprive the country of reliable water, electricity and fuel supplies. The head of the Iraqi Parliament, Osama al-Nujaifi in October complained of "corruption mafias that seem to spread through the establishment like an octopus."


9: Haiti

This island nation declared independence in 1804 and less than two years later its first Emperor, Jean Jacques Dessalines, was shot and hacked to pieces by citizens angry over rampant corruption. Little has changed since then. The 2010 earthquake death toll was magnified by illegally constructed buildings and post-earthquake aid efforts have been hampered by widespread government corruption.


10 Venezuela

Dictator Hugo Chavez claims to work for the people but the biggest beneficiaries of his authoritarian regime have been friends and political cronies. Venezuela ranks 175 out of 179 countries on the Heritage Foundation's 2011 Index of Economic Freedom thanks to diminishing freedom of labor and widespread expropriations of private businesses.

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USA should be No 1

This is a country that actually STARTS WARS that kill millions of people, based on lies and fabrications, with the intent of cornering national resources worth trillions of dollars. Case in point, Iraq and Libya.

What corruption in Somalia or Myanmar approaches that level??

People like George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld etc are war criminals who have enriched thousands of Americans and European elite to the tune of trillions of dollars following their seizing of Iraq's oil resources and lately, Obama and co in Libya. Prior to the invasion of those nations, the govts of those states refused to allow US companies to be involved in their oil sector. After they were invaded and their leaders murdered, the US stands as the nation with the most companies operating in their oil sectors.

WHAT CORRUPTION in Haiti or Uzbekistan even BEGINS to approach this?

That list is an utter travesty, a sham, and a joke.

Hian!!! Nigeria is not on the list! Wao! So my country is that gooood. Lets keep it up. Corruption free society.

Which no did Nigeria carry?

Kazhakstan, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Belarus are not far behind those ten countries.