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Why battle against graft should focus more on prevention than cure

Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC) offices in Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Medieval Dutch Humanist Desiderius Erasmus once famously said: “Prevention is better than cure.”

In Kenya, there is a great disease that has affected almost all parts at all levels. That is the virus of corruption and its accompanying moral failings.

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