OPINION: A case of self-evaluation as we mark African Anti-Corruption Day

The African Union (AU) launched the African Anti-Corruption Year during its 30th Assembly of Heads of State and Government held at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January during which it declared that “Under the leadership of the African Union Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC), the African Union, its organs, Member States, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), Civil Society Organizations together with citizens (women, men and young people alike) will embark on a journey to address the urgent need to curb corruption which is a major societal flaw causing setbacks in the socio-economic and political development of the continent.”

There might not have been so many events to mark the day locally. There also wasn’t a national address by the leadership to “commemorate” the day in Kenya. But the country could be one of those with the most to write home about in the war against corruption both in the year and the immediacy of the day.