What must be done to scale down corruption within government

Task force; the oldest con game in town. Raila Odinga’s intimation at the formation of a task force to address the ogre of corruption was an unobtrusive way of telling us that government functionaries endowed with sticky fingers won’t be going anywhere soon.

Kenya is on a spin, a serious one at that, and the man who is supposed to steady it is perhaps dizzier than most.