Nigeria: World Losing U.S.$2.6 Trillion Annually to Corruption - Kerry

24 August 2016

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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