Kenyans insist on right to vote in 'our thieves'

Well-known thieves will be elected and celebrated as “our thieves.” [iStockphoto]

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has released a list of individuals it claims are spectacularly disqualified from running for public office, even chairing a cattle dip project in the village, because they have been implicated in financial impropriety.

I wanted to add that the same folks shouldn’t be allowed to chair nursery school boards, but I quickly changed my mind because Kenyans appear to be learning thieving ways right from kindergarten. So politicians must have been serving as chairs of such entities.