Opinion: Home truths on our war on corruption

As the British colonialist settled down following the colonisation of Kenya, he created a society divided into classes of the haves and have-nots, the rich and the poor. The African maintained a Spartan existence in the villages denuded of his cultural dignity and economically deprived.PHOTO: COURTESY

As the new anti-corruption tsar, Bishop Eliud Webukhala, settles into his new assignment, the fact that we have over the years been pre-occupied with corruption cannot be denied.

The preoccupation goes back decades, to 1997 when the fight against it was codified into law with the enactment of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1997 and beyond.