Why it is easy to detect, fight graft

Corruption has become the canker that threatens the social economic goals that we have set for ourselves as a country, including Vision 2030. Its invidious impact on delivery of strategic programmes that would enhance efficiency in Government, improve competitiveness, promote economic growth and ensure security is perverse. Whether in Kenya or in the United States, corrupt practices must be detected, prevented and deterred if an empowered citizenry is to emerge.

Given the benefits of decimating corruption are so clear and its practical implications uncontested, why have our social policies and institutional arrangements struggled to uproot the seeds of the vice? It is submitted that the struggle against corruption must be waged in multiple arenas, not just in courts of law.