Renewed onslaught against graft cartels is the way to go

By Michael Waikenda

Last week I wrote of a country basking in the warm glow of the Lupita Nyong’o Oscar halo all the way from Hollywood, but back home, some facts remain stubbornly cast in stone rather than coated in the mould of the Oscars of success. Kenya is ranked at position 139th most corrupt country in the world in an index involving 176 countries. Those successive knocks on the door are chilling reminders that the ghosts of Anglo leasing, Goldenberg, Maize, Triton, Grand Regency and the Japan Embassy mega scandals are camped at our doorstep, demanding re-entry into their former comfort Castle of the Unvanquished. In fact, the beast snapping its fangs and growling outside our creaking door is the great great grand-mongrel of the revered old Master of Corruption County and is almost breaking free from its leash.