Lack of political goodwill entrenching corruption in Kenya

NAIROBI: Adage has it that it is pointless flogging a dead horse. Similarly, you cannot make a frog walk and neither can you make a snail gallop. It is in the nature of the latter two to move as they were created to do without variation.

That analogy is descriptive of Kenya’s political elite today. Overall, they are dead horses, frogs and snails, all heaped into one. Flogging a dead horse would not make it move no matter how hard one tries. It is thus pointless urging the current administration to do things it has clearly indicated through its inactivity are above its ken. The buzzwords are ‘corruption’, ‘clueless’ and ‘intransigence’, so let us stick with those for the moment.