Kanja should take on graft in NPS head-on

Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja at the official opening of Regional Center on Small Arms (RECSA) meeting. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

The National Police Service is synonymous with corruption and virtually every adult Kenyan has a story to tell about it. However, an audit by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has revealed the true extent of the rot. And it runs deeper that the public eye can see.

According to EACC, the junior police officer who asks you for kitu kidogo on the road does not singularly represent the evil that is corruption. Such officers are deployed there by their seniors with daily targets of the bribes they must collect. But what is positive about this shocking report is that it was commissioned by none other than the Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja.