Get to the bottom of growing scandals across the country

The Kimwarer and Arror dam projects in Elgeyo Marakwet County are the latest in the ever growing list of scams in the country. To Kenyans, there seems to be a surfeit of scandals despite tough, yet completely ineffective talk from an executive long on talk about ending the vice of corruption, but extremely short on action. In this latest investigation, the number of firms involved - at least 107 - goes to show just how complex and deeply rooted corruption is.

For the Kimwarer and Arror hydro-power dams, the Government allocated a total Sh63 billion, part of which has already been spent, ostensibly on compensating 800 families on whose land the dams were to be constructed. However, after investigations, the reality on the ground is that no land has so far been acquired. This raises serious concerns on the role of the National Land Commission in whose jurisdiction land compensation for government projects falls. Mystery still surrounds compensation for the land on which the first phase of the SGR between Mombasa and Nairobi was constructed.