THE Patriotic Front says revelations from the Corruption Perception Index that corruption has worsened is an indication that the PF government has put in place mechanisms that are able to effectively detect it in the public sector. According to the PF media director Sunday Chanda, corruption has not worsened under President Edgar Lungu but the government has improved it’s detection mechanism. He was reacting to the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index released last week, which showed that the country had dropped by a point from 34 in 2019 to 33 in 2020, an indication that corruption had become endemic. “The corruption index is very welcome and maybe there is also another way looking at these corruption indexes that we have...

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