Public Service suffering a plague of integrity

President William Ruto congratulates newly appointed Public Service CS Geoffrey Ruku after he took oath of office at State House, Nairobi. [PSC, Standard]

Kenya is in the grip of an insidious plague corroding the very foundations of our public institutions. This plague is the erosion of integrity - a value fundamental to effective governance - and it spares no one.

It has seeped from the halls of Parliament to the corridors of county offices, tainting elected leaders and appointed officials alike. Moral decay now pervades our government, as widespread as it is alarming, and it is eating away at the trust that holds our nation together.