Kenya: Graft War Won't Be Won Through Churlishness

30 August 2011
opinion

ANOTHER artificial storm is brewing. It's been carefully crafted by the merchants of impunity to smother important issues and focus public attention and media hounds on the mundane. "PLO Lumumba must go!" That's the new clarion call this week. The last two weeks, it was yours truly on the dock.

I have no animus against PLO. Never did and never will. However, I believe that PLO isn't well equipped to fight graft in Kenya. He talks too much and does almost nothing to discharge his principal functions. I have previously questioned his loyalties and commitment to the war against grand corruption in view of his cosiness with people he should be investigating such as former president Daniel arap Moi's foreign minister Moses Wetangula and now even assistant minister Cecelie Mbarire and her husband.

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