Vietnam’s government is being urged by the international community and
donors to take tougher action to eat away at corruption.
At a dialogue on anti-corruption
in Hanoi last week, embassies and international organisations told the
government that existing laws, rules and regulations that aimed at combating
corruption were “often not implemented and enforced seriously”.
Victoria Kwakwa, Vietnam country
director for the World Bank, said that the Anti-Corruption Law adopted last
month by the National Assembly “still lacks effective supervision mechanisms to
ensure transparency.” “Could the Law on Access to Information be enacted soon?
Why is it so slow?
Passing this law would be a major
step forward for Vietnam’s anti-corruption battle,” said Kwakwa.
Kwakwa’s view was echoed by UN
Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Pratibha Mehta: “A big gap remains between
anti-corruption documents, rules and laws, and implementation of these
documents. The most important thing now for the government is intensifying its
actions.”
The representatives of
international donors also noted that Vietnam decided to shift the control of
the Central Anti-Corruption Steering Committee from the hand of the government
to the hand of the Politburo. They said this showed political determination of
Vietnam’s leaders, but more concrete results could be made if more actions were
taken.
To support their opinions, they
recalled the “Corruption from the perspectives of citizens, enterprises and
public officials” survey released in late November by the Government
Inspectorate, the Office of the Central Anti-Corruption Steering Committee and
the World Bank.
This survey was conducted over
2,601 citizens, 1,058 local and foreign firms and 1,801 state officials from
March to April, 2012. Under this survey, more than 75 per cent of respondents
from all three sample groups indicted that they were very interested in corruption
issues, and corruption in the traffic police, land administration, construction
and customs was a serious and prevalent issue.
The survey stated that corruption
ranged from high-level political graft to low-level bribes. For firms, 44 per
cent said they had to pay unofficial payments. Sixty per cent believed that
informal charges were costly, and 39 per cent said they considered corruption a
cause of concern.
Also last week Transparency
International trumpeted its Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, which was
surveyed over 176 nations and territories. Under the index, Vietnam ranked
123rd and receive a scored 31 on scale in which 0 denotes “highly corrupt” and
100 is “very clean.”
Thanh Tung | vir.com.vn
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