The Gen Z demonstrations have forced President William Ruto and other leaders to take a step back and reflect on their actions.
Apart from shelving the Finance Bill 2024, the President has dissolved the entire Cabinet, jump-started the recruitment of election chiefs, cut the number of advisers in government and called for the retirement of civil servants over the age of 60.
Unfortunately, this is just but scratching the surface as the rot is deep than the roots of a Mugumo tree.
What Kenya needs is the uprooting of the tree and planting a new one. Mere pruning will not yield much.
Key is genuine war against corruption, which over the years has yielded little.
While graft cases involving foreign firms and Kenyans are handled expeditiously in home jurisdictions, cases in Kenya take ages.
Two examples come to mind; the Chickengate scandal that involved Kenyan election officials and managers of UK firm Smith and Ouzman Limited over a Sh50 million bribe.
The most recent is the Sh9.1 billion construction contract bribe involving an Israeli firm and top Kenyan officials.
In the two cases, the UK and Israel officials were charged, the matter swiftly heard and determined.
For President Ruto to succeed in any planned reforms, the war on corruption must not be cosmetic.
Quote of the day: “Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
Pablo Neruda
The Chilean poet-diplomat and politician was born on July 12, 1904
Source: theStars .co.ke
Original writer: [email protected] (STAR EDITOR)