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WRIST-SLAPPING CORRUPTION: A CALL FOR KENYANS  

By Geoffrey Okelo

CORRUPTION in government is an age-old problem, but a new subject of study for economists concerned with economic growth. Within the past decade, organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF have begun to argue that corruption can deter investment and retard growth.

WHILE the United Nations’ top diplomats have continued exchanging harsh words over Iraq, a committee of UN experts quietly gathered  in Vienna to draft an international treaty to counter a threat that arguably causes as much harm to human lives as weapons of mass destruction: corruption. Every year, crooked politicians, officials and businessmen around Kenya steal billions of shillings of public money, depriving national and local government of resources to provide health care, sanitation, education and other vital services. Corruption in public and private life undermines economic development in our country, further depriving the citizens of Kenya of the resources to offer their families a decent life to live. A RECENT explosion of research on the economic effects of corruption calls to mind the old riddle about the chicken and the egg. Almost every paper in this growing literature tackles the question of which came first: corruption, or the economic phenomena with which it is associated?

A closer look of the world round-up about this pandemic: ARGENTINA’S former president, Carlos Menem, was under house arrest on suspicion of involvement in an arms-trading scandal. Paraguay’s president, Luis Gonzalez Macchi, who was onetime discovered to be driving a stolen BMW car, faced calls for his impeachment over fraud allegations, as does Brazil’s Senate president, Jader Barbalho. In Peru, more than 60 people—among them politicians, judges, generals and businessmen—have been detained, caught in the web of corruption spun by the regime of Alberto Fujimori, who was ousted as president …. So my still question is why are the people of Kenya still quite about this escalating trend of corruption while the country is being run by a president who is inept and his close friends ravaging our few resources?

WHAT sort of do-gooder would take up a campaign against corruption? Corruption, though it seems to be everywhere in our country, is hard to define and has no definite antidote. For this NARC Government to fight it is more like tilting at wind than at windmills and so does Kibaki and his kitchen cabinet tilting at wind! ATTACKING corruption, or at least appearing to, is a priority for almost every emerging economy. As academic evidence mounts that graft deters investment and economic growth, aid agencies tie their largesse more directly to clean government, and citizens from Kenya demand less venal politicians, no country can afford to ignore its reputation for corruption. That means no country and her leader can ignore transparency and accountability. Kenyans should wake up in this new era of every citizen matters in the affairs of their country and eject the infected statehouse worms from their comfortable resting positions.

The writer is currently residing in North Carolina, USA

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