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Anti-corruption speeches laced with leaders’ humour

Interior CS Fred Matiangi and Attorney General Paul Kihara during the conference. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Humour and laughter broke the tense moments that characterised the close of the two-day national anti-corruption conference at the Bomas of Kenya.

If it was not Attorney General Paul Kihara Kariuki recounting the analogy of fight against rats to the fight against graft, it was former Prime Minister Raila Odinga cooling his heels on Deputy President William Ruto’s official seat.

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