Education fraud signals moral dysfunction

Nairobi senator and gubernatorial aspirant Johnson Sakaja holding the IEBC certificate after he was cleared by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) at Kasarani Gymnasium, Nairobi on June 7, 2022. [Esther Jeruto, Standard]

Independent thinking is essential to democracy. But as celebrated author Charles Henry Scherf observes, leaders who become perpetual ‘scapegoaters’ can never think straight.

A ‘scapegoater’ makes a scapegoat of something or somebody for whatever comes about, including ideological bankruptcy or sins of omission and commission.