{"id":9851,"date":"2018-08-25T08:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T08:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2018-08-25T08:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T08:50:31","slug":"burundi-among-most-corrupt-countries-despite-zero-tolerance-declaration-says-olucome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-among-most-corrupt-countries-despite-zero-tolerance-declaration-says-olucome\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi among most corrupt countries despite \u201czero tolerance\u201d declaration, says OLUCOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years after Burundi Head of State declared \u201czero tolerance\u201d to any act of corruption, OLUCOME says Burundi is still among the most corrupt countries in the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9601\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9601\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9601\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rufyiri.jpg\" alt=\"Burundi among most corrupt countries despite \u201czero tolerance\u201d declaration, says OLUCOME\" width=\"410\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rufyiri.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rufyiri-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rufyiri-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rufyiri-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Rufyiri: \u201cInstead of improving, the corruption situation has worsened\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gabriel Rufyiri, chairman of OLUCOME, a local corruption watchdog, says the situation has worsened and will keep deteriorating if nothing is done. \u201cWhen President Pierre Nkurunziza took office in 2005, he affirmed his commitment to the fight against corruption. Burundi was among 36 countries that were most corrupt at that time but is among the top ten most corrupt countries in the world today\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rufyiri says that when the president declared zero tolerance to corruption in 2010, people thought it was going to be eradicated. \u201cUnfortunately, no action was taken to walk the talk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This activist says there is a group of people who enrich themselves while others live in grinding poverty. \u201cThere is a social inequality. There are people who get rich at the expense of others\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He says there should be a high court of justice to investigate high authorities\u2019 wealth as stipulated in the Constitution. \u201cHigh authorities should show their wealth to a competent court to avoid illicit enrichment\u201d.<br \/>\nIwacu tried to contact the minister of good governance to ask how far it is with \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy on corruption but in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years after Burundi Head of State declared \u201czero tolerance\u201d to any act of corruption, OLUCOME says Burundi is still among the most corrupt countries in the world. Gabriel Rufyiri, chairman of OLUCOME, a local corruption watchdog, says the situation has worsened and will keep deteriorating if nothing is done. \u201cWhen President Pierre Nkurunziza took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,670],"tags":[113,466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9852,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions\/9852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}