corruption.

corruption is killing Kenyans.
corruption is killing us.
from the Immigration officials at the entry points who accept bribes to allow undesirable aliens to pass through and who later come to commit outrages in the capital city to the Structural Engineer from the Council, who accepts a bribe and vouches for the structural integrity of a building which he doesnt know, has never seen and which months later, collapses and kills its tenants because the building codes werent strictly adhered to.
recruiters for the armed and disciplined forces, who ask as much as one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand Kenyan shillings in bribes to accept our sons and daughters into the armed forces, turning away worthy candidates who just happen to be poor and cant afford these steep bribes. and since these cadets bought their way in and didnt meritoriously earn it, they’re not serious in their training and career. and when you read that 40 policemen were ambushed and killed by cattle rustlers (people who steal cows in this day and era, for crying out loud!), you feel that it should have been the cattle rustlers who should have been recruited into the police.
members of the legislative assembly who gang-up and pass laws to increase their emoluments at the expense of teachers and doctors.
ministers of state who loot the public coffers which are under their jurisdiction.
a judiciary which allows perpetrators of felonies to walk, after a little something-something has been passed under the table and a file from the Registry disappeared here and evidence was tampered with there, and witnesses were intimidated in-between, and the case gets thrown out on a technicality.
we’re not blind; we see these things and we know them.
representatives of the people who’ve never been quite proved to be on the right side of that shadowy line that distinguishes the honest from the rest.
poaching cartels that decimate our precious wildlife and which are sponsored by individuals in government.
another container of narcotics has been impounded at the Mombasa port.
are the anti-narcotics people doing their work or was an insufficient bribe paid by the importer and the drugs impounded as a result? i have become a cynic because my government and my society have made me one.
these things are coming back home to bite us in our rears.
question is: what are we going to do about it?
i have raised the alarm, blown the whistle, pointed fingers at the perpetrators.
what kind of country and what kind of legacy are we leaving behind for our children and their children?