The U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, yesterday said the world lost $2.6 trillion to corruption annually.
This came on a day Liberian Vice President, Joseph Nyuma Boakai, also disclosed that over $148 billion was lost yearly to corruption in Africa, adding that much of this was perpetrated by public officials serving in democratically elected governments.
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