Kenyans are lazy people

October is a month universally dedicated to fighting cancer. Last year, Waiguru and her devolution ministry were accused of corruption.

No matter how much we crucify Waiguru and her ministry, hers is not an isolated case. It is like condemning a single drop of water for pollution in an ocean.

Corruption is a malignant disease in Kenya that needs urgent chemotherapy before it's too late.

Like any other cancer, corruption has its own carcinogens and not unless we discover them and deal with them, we will be like a cancer patient who ignores the doctor's advice and medication and instead insists on taking painkillers.

The first carcinogen of corruption in Kenya is greed and excessive love for power. You will agree with me that in recent years, Kenyans have been on a wild run to make as much money as possible.

They want to have fat bank accounts and be powerful. We are breaking our necks trying to impress the very people who gossip behind our backs and in our quests, we end up living lives that are a far cry from what we can afford.

Dear Kenyans, at any given point you can only be who you are. Let's learn to live according to our means and only then shall we be said to be dealing with corruption.

After we are done with that, we should move with speed and demolish the next mountain; convenience and laziness.

You see, the easiest way to make a Kenyan angry is to make them line up for just one more second.

Kenyans would rather bribe and be done in five minutes than line up for two hours for the same process.

We are simply a country of lazy people who dread to be inconvenienced. Doing things the right way is a process Kenyans abhor.

However, the fact is, not unless we train ourselves to avoid shortcuts, curing corruption in Kenya will be like sitting on a bucket and trying to lift ourselves up by the handles of the same bucket.

Now, with the tendency of always fearing to take action whenever allegations are made, we have successfully made ourselves scapegoats of corruption.

This is to an extent that even the thought of redemption can be laughed at as a good joke. Well, for us to cure this cancer of corruption, then we need to have the courage of paying the ultimate price of truth, no matter how painful it is.

Lastly, as Kenyans we have forgotten that the truth will always have its way and now, almost all of us are on a desperate mission to hide the truth and pervert justice.

We have forged a nation that prefers to live in a mansion of lies than face the bitter truth.

Consequently, we are spicing a stew that will eventually chock us. The stew of corruption.

Brothers and sisters, a time has come that we should embrace truth for us to completely deal with corruption.

After all is said and done, corruption just like cancer, if detected early can be cured but apparently we either missed or ignored the early detection stage but it's not too late; the chemotherapy can still work if only we can be courageous enough to take it.