Thread by @irunguhoughton

1/9 Lifestyle audits, witness protection and anti-corruption campaigns were needed when Jacob tricked Esau out of his birthright, when colonial BSAC fraudsters tricked African chiefs out of land, still needed today.
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2/9 There has been no significant improvement across 80% of Africa in ten years. Some new energies in Angola, Senegal and Liberia #Corruption
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3/9 US$148 billion of corruption and illicit capital leaves Africa for off-shore accounts p.a. 20-30% African wealth is in the same accounts
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3/5 feel corruption is rising is the reason democracy dysfunctional. 1/3 report having to pay bribes to access services
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
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5/9 Laws important (criminalisation, whistleblower protection, asset seizure and social sanctions) but enforcement also matters
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6/9 We must celebrate #CarlosCardoso (Moz), @daddyhope (Zim), #MaeAzongo (Lib) among others and all present today. We owe it to them to pay their efforts forward.
weforum.org/agenda/2017/05…
transparency.org/en/blog/8-fema…
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7/9 Kenya has had some great campaigns #WeKnowYourSalary #RedCardKE Corruption Tracker KE website that remind us of Thomas Sankara's maxim "simplicity of lifestyle is not poverty" #Corruption
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8/9 Not all politicians come to eat our state. Way ahead of his time, @bonifacemwangi ran one of the cleanest campaigns in 2017
rfi.fr/en/africa/2017…
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9/9 We must take the work beyond NGOs + journalists, need to bring in taxi-drivers, security guards, bank tellers, estate agents, lawyers + accountants. Until we eliminate our people's attachment to situational ethics, we don't stand a chance
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