Fix graft pigs, the tenderprenuer dark underworld will tumble

When President Uhuru Kenyatta berated top officials for failure to fight corruption, I asked myself, what exactly is wrong with Kenya, and Kenyans? Yes, corruption is alive and well. There are two types of corruption. There is the type that loots Sh300 billion from the budget through procurement deals and through outright, impunity-dripping theft. Then there is the rather petty, but even more dangerous type where people paid to serve the public pocket between Sh50 and Sh5,000 to bend the rules for an equally corrupt public. It indirectly kills thousands every year through State neglect.

In the first type, Kenyans point out priorities that would improve health, education, and standards of living. Then when it comes to budgeting, tenderprenuer sources in State corporations take advantage of the importance of projects being budgeted for to make money that only an over-the-hill psycho should ever want to have in one lifetime.