Looters paradise: Key agencies look away as cartels milk Kenya dry

National youth service personnel take tea outside the late president Kenyatta's mouselium on 23rd July, 2015.

?A relentless attack on public coffers by a cabal of unscrupulous individuals backed by shameless, greedy Government officials has ensured Kenya remains the preferred destination for looters. 

Curiously, some of the offices that are meant to be at the forefront of the war against graft remain mum amidst public outcry as wave after wave of what seems to be State-sanctioned corruption overrides all public good. Since 2013, close to a dozen scandals worth more than Sh100 billion have been unearthed through a combination of determined whistle-blowers, disgruntled wheeler dealers and the odd diligent civil servant.