Enforce laws to wipe out corruption

Corruption has become the better option in Kenya so long as one can loot enough to hire a lawyer and seek protection from high offices.

One wonders why shoplifters are shamed and forced to face the cameras for their petty offences yet looters of public funds hog the limelight while engaging in charity using stolen funds.

The media has consistently reported incidents of corruption but it only appears like a comedy that excites the audiences only for a short time. Since no action is taken, no one is successfully prosecuted and neither is the loot recovered.

Every year, we lose 30 per cent of our GDP through corruption, which has become normalised.

Government systems are weak while our electoral processes are tilted towards the ability to bribe voters. The Jubilee government has expressed its inability to weed out corruption yet the vice is gnawing the very tenets of our existence.

It is high time Kenyans woke up from slumber and demanded that the Government account for how it has used the instruments of power to enforce all the anti-corruption laws already established.

When Sh600 billion is lost each year and no one is held accountable, then we are in a bandit State.

The unaccounted-for resources make our poor people die in hospitals for lack of personnel and medicine, children miss facilities in schools and universities are not funded to do research.

Until we make it clear that looted resources will be recovered and culprits shamed like shoplifters, we shall only make corruption the fodder for our students in drama festivals.

Corruption will not end so long as one can escape prosecution and keep the loot. Furthermore, one can seek elective position using looted money to conduct campaigns.

The country will continue to decay until one day looters will be stealing from their right pocket to hide it in their breast pocket. Laws should be enforced to make corruption the worst option!