Jubilee administration still saddled with greed and graft

The nation is bleeding on all fronts. Strikes have affected the education system and the nation’s workforce.

The cancer of corruption has eaten into the bone marrow of Kenya’s economy.

If truth be told, I am a disillusioned and distressed on several accounts.

I am unimpressed by the 11th Parliament. It has portrayed a rather weird and grim image as it is fraught with incessant bickering, perpetual squabbles, poor attendance and uninspiring debates.

Primarily, our legislators are tasked with passing bills, fast-tracking reforms, fronting development issues as well as giving themselves fully to the service of the nation.

MPs have the unique role under our new Constitution of acting both as representatives of constituencies as well as providing real checks and balance against the other branches of the Government.

In other words, unlike in the past where we had a parliamentary system of government, things have changed under the new Constitution which gives MPs real and significant authority to check the Executive or the Judiciary’s exercise of their respective powers.

With this authority, also comes the responsibility and expectation that MPs will use that mandate to promote the interests of the people first.

I had much optimism that the devolved system would erase the endemic corruption that has punctuated Kenyan leadership since time immemorial and that the people-owned form of governance would spur development and equal accessibility to resources. However, graft seems to have been devolved. This makes me cry for my nation.

REVIVE ECONOMY

The Jubilee administration may have tried to revive the economy and transform the general socio-economic well-being of the nation, but its system is saddled with greed and graft. Its leaders have refused to transform the system. They have instead milked my beloved country dry.

The Jubilee administration has an obligation to deliver on its manifesto and take my motherland to the promised land.

Kenya is an island of peace, hotbed of talent and has potential to be an economic giant in Africa.

Corruption has been a serious roadblock to the economic development of our country, and it is one of our main problems.

Corruption not only undermines the stability of our nation, t also aggravates inequality, hence leads to many injustices in the nation.

Chief Justice Willy Mutunga recently admitted corruption is one of the biggest threats to Kenyans. In fact, the CJ once likened corruption to terrorism saying that it threatens to ‘kill’ the benefits of the new Constitution.

Today, corruption is rampant in Government offices, with senior officials being the most corrupt.

Why does the State keep on shielding its most corrupt officers? In Tanzania, President John Magufuli has started his term by showing great zeal to fight graft yet in Kenya, the vice seems to be a non-issue. For sure we will never be free from corruption if it continues this way, and it will take us a long time to achieve economic growth.

Let all those who have been mentioned in any corruption-related scandals be investigated and if found culpable, charged.

Let us not stop fighting corruption because a member of our party or community has been implicated.