Matters Corruption ~ Kenya

To quote the legendary grandiloquent PLO Lumuba, "We live in a country where thieves are canonized and saints are demonised." The man himself PLO Lumumba, God bless him, was unceremoniously hauled out of the Integrity Center by the very institution that should be on the lead in fighting graft, The National Assembly.
The country is bleeding broke and hopeless and one is tempted to believe these are the consequences we were promised by the US owing to our choices. The rate of borrowing is shameful and the govt is competing with citizens in taking loans. The burden is being shifted to the poor Kenyan in a bid to raise funds for the cartels who literally run the country like a grocery. The tragedy of it all is that we praise our ethnic gods as champions in the looting spree and forget easily that not even a penny drops at your door from the loot. We believe that thieves are good, they are heroes as long as they are 'our' thieves!!

For our public officials, theft is the main business and their job description can come later. We have lately been treated to hypocritical expressions of will to fight corruption but as this govt, particularly this, has always been, it's just PR. It is mind-boggling how the people we entrust with responsibility to serve Kenyans and protect their resources have the courage to shift blame to very junior people when their dirty dealings are uncovered. A Kenyan would say, "Ni kama ndrama ni kama vindio". It's drama. Tragic drama. And while this happens, a mother is reported to have died in some public hospital with a dead baby in her womb having not been attended to because the medics, after completing their shift, had to close shop and go home. Even for this, the buck stops with the CS. Our integrity issues and levels responsibility are skewed.

THE ROYAL BABY
There is a royal baby in town. Very untouchable. She runs a public docket so huge and heavily funded that she can buy a piano to play during Friday afternoons. She says she is diligently serving Kenya. I do not refute the diligence but I highly doubt who she serves. It is obviously not Kenya for the same Kenyans are telling her to pack and go. Go have a rest. From Chinua Achebe's wisdom, Kenyans are saying she has presided over too much theft that the owner has now noticed. For her it is graceful taking credit for achievements of the hungry underpaid NYS youth who comb the slams literally collecting poo in waste bags. But butterflies fill her belly and she gets jittery when asked to take responsibility for the rot within the same ministry. She instead decides to blame junior officers!! Well, even the shovel-wielding NYS youth are junior guys.
She has the unimagined audacity to say "I won't go" even when her colleagues are still out because of mere allegations. In Kiswahili she would tell us "Mtado?"
While some of the allegations might be far-fetched for some of these officials, its good practice to explain everything in black and white, then step aside and allow independent institutions to find the truth.
Talking of Independent Institutions and I realize we lost that long ago. What we have are shells just to satisfy the constitution requirement but in real sense they are also run like kiosks by the gods that be and the commissioners are like maids who can be fired anytime anywhere.

Imagine a smoker in Kipsamoi, Ilkerin ward of Narok county is now being overtaxed so some guys in a public office can get money to buy penile and venial vibrators?? REALLY!! NO! And that college student who depends on juice for lunch is now forced to part with more to fund condom dispensers!! Why? This student cannot even erect with juice as his diet. If kshs 50/- disappears in my bank account I will notice in no time and sample all deposit and withdrawal slips, do an audit(closed door) and find out where it went.
But for some people who awkwardly believe Kenyans are the dumbest and most daft on earth, over 790 million disappears into thin air and its just normal business of 'The junior officials are responsible blah blah blah' and some technical nonsense of sijui AIE blah blah and a reminder of 'I only do policy formulation blah blah'.




Kindly eat and swallow those policies and give Kenyans value for their money. Own up to your failures and feel sorry for cheating Kenyans.

And as you use ethnic coalitions to hide in the name of national unity, please be reminded that a time is coming when the tribal unity founded on ignorance will fade away and be replaced by a revolution of the majority have-nots driven by common poverty.

God bless Kenya and kill its thieves.