Corruption claims floor both CORD and Jubilee

NAIROBI: I am sick to my stomach — of both CORD and Jubilee. One is the government, while the other is a government-in-waiting. But the two increasingly look like the two-headed hydra. Neither appears capable of saving Kenya. That’s because elites in both tribal cocoons treat political parties like grass-thatched huts—temporary, collapsible, and inherently insecure. Nothing illustrates the bankruptcy of the intellect — and utter lack of political morality — than the current mud-throwing on corruption. CORD and Jubilee honchos are facsimiles of pigs in a mud-pit. Let me tell you why Kenyans need neither CORD nor Jubilee. We need to break free of our tormentors in both ramshackle parties and create an alternative leadership. If not, we are sunk — completely.

This is the basic construct — a fact that’s undeniable. Thieves infest both CORD and Jubilee. Personally, I believe Jubilee has the more deadly and voracious thieves. But you can’t be half pregnant, or partially corrupt. You are either corrupt, or you are not—full stop. That doesn’t mean that one thief can’t accuse another, but the answer to an accusation of theft is not to point to your fellow thief. Two wrongs don’t make a right. You shouldn’t proclaim your innocence as a thief by pointing out that your neighbour is a thief too. Nor should you hide under your tribe’s skirt to flummox your pursuers. Each wrong, or act of theft, must be answered on its own merit.