Liberia: As Liberia Celebrates Anti-Corruption Day

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When Liberia announced a significant breakthrough in the fight against corruption by being selected as the third in Africa after Cape Verde and Ghana, and the 75th place among 165 countries in the world on the 2012 Transparency International's Corruption Perception Chart, eye brows have been raised as to what so much that Liberia has done to merit that noble place.

What pessimist have failed to realize is that there is no gainsaying the fact that Liberia has been working around the clock to put in place measures to ensure transparency and financial accountability whose benchmarks on the basis of global standards are yielding fruits and if strictly adhered to would continue to be harvested by future generation of Liberians.

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