Committees are not the answer to ending graft

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Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi says the government will set up anti-corruption committees to be chaired by Principal Secretaries. This was informed by the National Ethics and Corruption Survey 2023 report prepared by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) detailing how deep corruption runs in this country.

Indeed, corruption continues to be the Achilles' heel of successive governments in Kenya. A lot has been done to fight corruption, but it just won't go away. Instead, the vice grows from strength to strength every time the government talks tough about ending it. All efforts to fight corruption so far are either wrong, inadequate or simply perfunctory, aimed at managing public expectations.