Kenyans are fed up with Jubilee’s corruption

Corruption scandals in Kenya have got to a point where the figures no longer shock Kenyans. The Jubilee administration will forever be remembered as the most corrupt in Kenya’s post-independence history. Nothing is sacred under Jubilee – from money meant for medicine and hospitals, to children’s books, to mega infrastructure projects. It is an administration established to steal from ordinary Kenyans. The thieves in the administration have become so bold that they barely hide their deeds.

Kenyans are fed up. The only remaining question is how they will react. On one hand, there is a real risk of total disengagement from the public sphere. What is one to do if the revelation of corruption is no longer enough to deter those who are milking the public sector dry? How should the public process the fact that the country’s prosecutorial authority and the Judiciary appear to be unable to convict suspected thieves? The likely outcome will be generalised apathy among Kenyans. The same government that is denying nurses and teachers pay raises, despite repeatedly hiking taxes, is full of individuals whose entire existence seems to be motivated by the selfish motive of defrauding taxpayers in unimaginable ways.