EA report exposes Uganda’s most corrupt institutions

Corruption continues to be endemic in Uganda with bribes either solicited or expected in a startling 35% of service interactions. The first ever East African Bribery index found that Uganda has the dubious honour of having the highest impact bribery in the region.
 
This is measured by interactions in which services will be denied unless a bribe is paid. In dealings with the judiciary, for example, 63 % of respondents reported they had been denied services unless they greased the palms of an official.
 
The report also revealed that the country's most sensitive sectors are some of the worst culprits, with 40% of bribes going on healthcare and security services. 68% of bribes were paid in order to gain access to services that are supposed to be already catered for by taxation. Uganda also boasts the highest compliance rate with 82% of people paying a bribe on demand. Only 2% of respondents refused to pay and then reported it to the correct authorities.