Nairobi — Despite high-sounding pledges, Kenya's war against corruption is yet to record significant gains.

The country still ranks among the world's worst performers in this year's International Corruption Perception Index.

At position 146 out of 180 countries ranked, the country is still regarded as unfit to invest in, a perception that has greatly hurt the economy.

Part of the reason why the anti-graft campaign is faltering is our unwieldy style of government in the name of Grand Coalition.

There is inertia in government because neither parties in the coalition dare focus on key issues like ending corruption lest they lose ground to their rivals.

Secondly, whenever some people are mentioned negatively in connection with graft, they always claim they are being unfairly targeted by their political enemies.

Others pick on non-issues and use them to champion the anti-corruption campaign, not because they believe in what they are saying, but merely to besmirch their opponents.

Worse, the recent saga over the leadership of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission sent the wrong signals about the country's commitment to the crusade against corruption.

While noting that some positive steps have been taken to create institutions to deal with graft, we are still heading nowhere. This is where the government needs to expend its energies now.