A litany of theft yet no one accounts for it

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu. [File, Standard]

The litany of theft Auditor General Nancy Gathungu unveils every other day leaves one with several conclusions: we are either a very rich country with a bottomless treasury; that most Kenyans are corrupt (only that most don’t get the opportunity to line their pockets) or the justice system has failed. Or all three.

Like Sisyphus, we seem stuck in a perpetual battle against the corruption grindstone, a battle we seem to have lost and all we can do now is watch helplessly as the rodents gnaw at the bones of what is left of this country. They finished with the flesh eons ago.