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Public international law and the regulation of diplomatic immunity in the fight against corruption

Mwenda, Kenneth Kaoma. - Nama Orang

At times, the book reads like a political thriller as, for example, when
Prof Mwenda writes about diplomats who disregard traffic laws and fail topay fines. There is apparently a correlation between recalcitrant diplomatsand their countries’ standing on corruption perception indices. This iscertainly the case with respect to African diplomats. Those diplomats fromcountries perceived to be the most corrupt on the continent, are less likelyto pay traffic fines than diplomats from more favourably perceivedcountries. The reader may not be surprised to learn that in the examples
given 14 out of 20 ‘heaviest parking sinners’, as Prof Mwenda calls them,emanate from the African continent. The surprise may lie in the fact that‘diplomats from Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic had notbeen involved in any wrongdoing at all’ between 1997 and 2002. It mayalso be of interest that the list was topped by Kuwait.

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