Corruption: With banks no longer safe, suspects stuff stolen millions inside graves

In the good old days, corrupt public servants, mostly men, would stick their hands into the till, siphon billions and get away with it. From cash stashed in secret bank accounts, cash hidden under the beds and holes in their houses, in top of the range cars, pieces of land in prime estates, residential and commercial buildings and shares in investments companies, they had it going.

But the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) appears to have ridden into town, smoking gun in hand like a wrinkled Sheriff in a Wild West movie and it is smoking the bad boys out, seizing their bank and Sacco accounts and properties suspected to be proceeds of corruption. The proverbial tree has suddenly become slippery for the baboon, and those suspected to be corrupt are trooping out of the forest, with nary a set of knickers to cover their flaming behinds. With banks no longer safe havens to hide stolen loot, the going is so tough that some public servants have taken to stuffing stolen millions in graves, so the grapevine goes, or in their houses where the unlucky fall victim to theft by servant.