Why corruption is a millstone around our necks

Members of the civil society demonstrate in Nairobi over the rise of corruption cases in Kenya, they have called on the president to jail all the individuals involved in NYS and maize scandal in Kenya on 31/5/18. [Beverlyne Musili, Standard]

It was Mwai Kibaki, Kenya’s third President who said in his inaugural speech that “corruption will now cease to be a way of life in Kenya.” That was in 2002 after Kanu lost power and Kenya was voted as most optimistic country in the world.

I missed that opportunity to celebrate with my fellow countrymen the rebirth of a nation. I keenly followed the celebration from America’s Deep South and can still sing “I am unbwogable.”