Corruption is a Kenyan way of life. It's an undeniable norm. It's engraved on our DNA as a Nation. Kenyans may openly deny this but deep within they will accept.
Funny how the government is busy fighting corruption while the same officials are asking for bribes, grabbing lands, seeking favours for their children and offering employment to the people they know.
“You cannot run a country whose creed is greed. And the duty of those of us who have been given the honour and privilege to be the arrow’s head in the fight against corruption is to change that creed,” said PLO Lumumba when he was appointed as the director of Kenya Anti Corruption Commission.
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You cannot fight a monster when the monster is you. It's harder than committing suicide. And corruption is not the one to commit suicide.
If you owe somebody a favour there comes a time when you have to pay back. This is one way in which corruption as a norm manages to stay alive among Kenyans.
Which Kenyan can deny having had to pay back favour in a dishonest way? It's totally undeniable.
Is there any Kenyan who's never asked for a favour, given a bribe or got an offer dishonestly? It is undeniable, isn't it?
When a child cries you give him false promises. What's that? Dishonesty? He'll grow up not knowing to fulfill promises.
How about offering sweets to a children when you send them and they don't want to go? Isn't that bribing? Maybe you have a better name but that's just pampering the monster - Corruption.
Remember the story of the old woman who hid a hyena(ogre) that ate her later.
For a Kenyan corruption is a survival instinct. It's a norm, isn't it?
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