Kenya: What Are We Being Distracted From This Time?

29 October 2016

analysis By Joyce Nyairo

A new corruption scandal has erupted. As always, my first question is: "What are we being distracted from, this time?" Please don't get me wrong. I am not diminishing the importance of fresh revelations of corruption. I am actually trying to grasp the scale of our problems -- from the economic to the socio-cultural and, above all, the political.

Corruption at the Ministry of Health is not new. In 1974, Deputy Secretary Michael Shimechero was jailed for two-and-a-half years for taking bribes to influence supplies at the Central Medical Stores. That conviction did not stem the tide of sketchy players and dodgy contracts in the ministry.

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