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THE past year has seen an almost 30 per cent jump in the rate of public officials filing a public declaration of their income and assets, said the Integrity Commission Annual Report 2024. It was laid in the House of Representatives on June 13.

The chairman's report said overall compliance had jumped from 61 per cent of all public officials actually filing declarations in 2023 to some 78 per cent in 2024.

In 2022, some 1,381 public officials were required to file, but only 844 complied. However by 2023, some 1,335 people had to file and 1,037 complied.