Do you believe lifestyle audits can contain corruption in Kenya?

President Uhuru Kenyatta. [Photo: Courtesy]

The chances that lifestyle audits can end  corruption are very high, but this will largely depend on the manner in which they are conducted. Let us start from the premise that Kenyans have reached a point where most do not trust the Government. They have heard the refrain on ending corruption for as long as Kenya has been independent.

Because of this, many scoffed when President Uhuru Kenyatta said he and his deputy would subject themselves to lifestyle audits. No Kenyan is gullible enough to believe that people who owe their jobs to either the President or his deputy would jeopardise those jobs by writing negative reports about them.