Why fight against corruption is a facade

The fight against corruption, assuming there was one in the first place, is already lost.

Lately, there has been a bevy of bad jokes from the Executive. President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive that all procurement officers undergo a polygraph test elicited such swift rejoinders, most unflattering to him and his besieged deputy, he must have balked at the venom. Clearly, the directive was issued on the spur of the moment without consideration of its implications, and so is the call for lifestyle audit exercise.

One has to be truly naive to believe that any audit on the President, his deputy and the real wielders of power would be gullible enough to disclose anything negative about themselves in a country where a nondescript salonist admits to carrying stolen money from NYS in sacks and walks free.