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Tough talk on war on corruption is the easy part

NAIROBI, KENYA: Few vices are as magnetic to adverse imagery as corruption. It is, among other things, a debilitating cancer, a fierce dragon, a vicious hydra-headed creature and an insatiable beast without a moral compass.

Considering its proven social and economic devastation, sometimes taking decades to reverse, corruption deserves all the adjectival bashing. But words alone are not enough. Be they politicians’ soaring rhetoric, threats by anti-corruption watchdogs or bold writings declaring some areas to be ‘corruption-free zones’, the success of the fight against graft largely depends on robust action.

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