Oversight groups must do more to tackle graft

As President Uhuru Kenyatta pleaded with Pope Francis to pray for his genuine bid to fight corruption, I felt a tinge of disappointment. The institutions mandated to curb the vice have largely let down the Executive and Kenyans in general.

But when did the rain start beating us? During the drafting of the 2010 Constitution, it was wrongly assumed that a powerful Presidency had weakened independent public institutions.