Is Kenya a nation full of liars and cheats?

One can be forgiven for thinking Kenya is a nation full of liars and cheats. Our very idea of what it involves to make it in life is an inherent desire to cheat, lie and if possible steal. This idea is so pervasive in Kenyan society that the Ministry of Education has dedicated Sh1.5 billion to stop exam cheats. This Sh1.5 billion won’t go to school feeding programmes, neither will it go to bolstering the free education system; it will go to stopping 18 and 14-year-olds from cheating in exams.

One is tempted to ask if these children have parents, because to stop me from cheating, all you needed to do was threaten to tell my mother. But today’s children are in cahoots with their parents to defraud the education system. Parents, I am told, are willing to fly to the UK just to get a chance for their children to cheat.