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aemathenge wrote:2012 wrote:Until Kenyans get angry & tired, nothing will happen.
Until we call it theft and not corruption, nothing will happen.
Until we name and shame the thieves, nothing will happen.
Until we discipline these thieves on the streets the same way we discipline phone thieves on this streets nothing will happen. Forget the courts, they are incapable, unwilling or deeply compromised. They are part of the problem.
Get tired Kenyans! I wait with wild anticipation to your rebuttal to the sentiments expressed by an Kenian economist I hold in great respect. Copy and paste extract of the sentiments: Quote:When Kenya was governed under a centralised system, grand corruption was a distant affair that benefited a limited circle of individuals.
A farmer could not conceive how he or she would ever get a kickback in the circle of corruption, until devolution.
When county officials divert public finances to their pockets, much of that money remains within the county economy.
It can be used to finance household expenses, education and health costs, as well as generally improve the quality of life of the corrupt individual and those in their circle.
Diverted public monies also become investment funds, where corrupt individuals suddenly have cash that can be directed to business activity.
I have travelled in counties where I have been openly told that this building or that business belongs to a government official.
This government official did not have these assets before, but suddenly they are serious financiers in the county.
And interestingly, these facts are not shared with a tone of bitterness or annoyance, there almost seems to be an appreciation that even if public monies are being stolen, at least they are benefiting the local economy.
After all, businesses are being financed, people are being employed to run and manage them and suddenly there is a new source of income for many.
This is not a justification of corruption, but rather an exploration of how it is evolving.
We seem to have moved on from the days when loot was sequestered in accounts in distant capitals of Europe and North America.
Now when public money is stolen, much of it sticks around.
How will this inform the fight against corruption?
How do strategies that seek to address corruption need to be updated to become relevant again?
These are questions for us all. Source Link From The Business Daily We will be a corrupt nation for some years to come. Then it will end once we stop idolizing politicians/politics and people are able to make a decent living out of their own sweat. Currently, the children being raised in Kenya in the informal settlements are envying children on the concrete village and if you talk to them, they believe that the parents living on the concrete village are all thieves largely because that's what their parents tell them. Most of these kids will grow up believing that the only way up is in government.
BBI will solve it :)
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