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Corruption has become a way of life in Kenya

Every day I look at the newspapers and these days, there is a headline screaming corruption. It seems corruption has become a way of life in our beloved Kenya. The vice has penetrated every echelon of society and it stinks from earth to high heavens. It’s so bad that people are willing to engage in corruption as long as they are not caught.

But where did the rain start beating us? I wonder? Is it when we started rewarding corruption by not punishing the big fish that were involved in the vice? Or has it been happening all along it’s just that the advent of information and communication technologies has made access to information much easier? Truly, it’s difficult to tell but what needs to be done like yesterday is to figure out how to stop this vice from making Kenya a failed state.

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