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To end corruption, Uhuru should ban harambees by State officials

It may be illegal for public officers, civil servants, and MPs to corrupt the public through harambees. If so, no one ever got the memo. Every day – and twice on Sundays – political mandarins traverse the breadth and width of Kenya littering millions of shillings in public rallies everywhere. This blatant show of corruption – done in broad daylight and without shame, or irony – is the grist of the mill of Kenyan politics.

The biggest culprits are those gunning for the presidency in 2022.  Which begs the question – where do public servants whose salaries are known get all these gobs of money to bamboozle and bewilder hapless citizens? I know this – Kenya must banharambees for the anti-corruption fight to succeed.

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