Oman, the 'least' Corrupt among Arab's

Really, for me, I don’t accurately know what Omanis has in their perception about the government when it comes to a question where Oman is standing in term of financial management, and how much corruption, but I’m suspecting that normal puplic and especially the un educated ones will pointed out that the corruption is spreading every where including both puplic and private sector. I can’t blame them all because the information system here was not much transparent or lets say wasn’t have enough effort in reporting some critical issues like tenders budgets, the projects costs till recently, where the Establishment of the National financial Audit Bureau and the Tender Board have been positive steps taken by Oman in achieving this transparency.

So this news of the report showing that Oman coming first of the ‘least’ financial corrupted arabian country, have made my day and allowed me to have a nice long breath.

As per Oman times:

“The Sultanate is the least corrupt Arab nation, according to a report prepared by the London-based Transparency International. Oman got 6.3 points on a scale of 10 in the Global Corruption Report 2005 released by TI yesterday. The UAE, which scored 6.2 points, is placed second less corrupt Arab nation, followed by Qatar, Bahrain and Jordan. “

http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=21005,
and some more about bahrain score on: http://www.tradearabia.com/tanews/newsdetails_snECO_article95075_cnt.html



I’m not “too much ” concern about the statistics and figures outcame in the report, but I really appreciate the general outcomes of it.

Watching al-Jazeera program, there were discussion about how transparent this report, and it shows very remarkeable independent institutes and interntainal universities were involved in conducting the survey and establishing the report.

So Well, the news came at a fantastic timing, while Omanis heading to celebrate their 35th universary of the develovment and rauinssance era.

Why this important ?

- Create more the attractiveness, throughout the international reputation, for the foreign investors and big companies to come to Oman .
- More stability in the economical system, and encouragement of making more effort in terms of project planning.
- People on street will show more harmonization with laws and policies adopted in order to control the financial system.

And as reports, says ‘Leaders must go beyond lip service and make good on their promises to provide the commitment and resources to improve governance, transparency and accountability,

So big thanks to his Majesty for all what he has done to keep the development in Oman going in the right way….and for all the citizens whom working day and night to serve their country.