Should candidates reveal sources of their campaign cash?

Making public the source of campaign funding will expose the privacy of candidates because some get money from friends who do not want to be known.

Some cheeky opponents can also use the information for cheap propaganda by discrediting others for either having a lot of money or not having enough because politics has largely been commercialised in Kenya.
It cuts both ways, either for those who reveal huge budgets or those on a shoe string kitty. They will have to deal with a lot of pressure from opponents and propagandists instead of dealing with campaign issues that the electorate needs to be told.
Although the law to control campaign funding was well intentioned, Members of Parliament may have feared the many regulations they were supposed to meet and the exposure they risked facing.
However, serious candidates spend huge amounts of money on publicity and transport but today’s Kenyan voter cannot be swayed by material things only.
They are keen to know what you have to offer both inside and outside Parliament and if you have the capacity to properly represent them when you are elected. Empty promises and a show of money bags will not take you far.