Corruption is an individual disease that can be cured

Many of us have found it impossible to wrap our minds around the colossal amounts being bandied around in cases of grand corruption. With so many billions of shillings being discussed, the million has faded into insignificance. The reality, however, is that millions of Kenyans will go to the grave without ever experiencing what owning just one million shillings feels like.

Yet, simple arithmetic shows if a person were given one billion, and they spent Sh100,000 per day, it would take them almost thirty years to exhaust the amount. The question that therefore begs is: What drives men and women to uncontrollably desire to have billions in their bank accounts — whether locally or offshore? What is this disease that drives a respectable leader to destroy the very institution over which they have been given oversight, simply to have billions that they will never exhaust in their lifetime?