President Uhuru Kenyatta has no choice but to win war against graft

President Kenyatta came to power with a promise to firmly deal with corruption. He went ahead to appoint technocrats as ministers and made us all believe since politicians are not in the Cabinet, we will have no or fewer cases of corruption.

However, the opposite is the reality as poor tax payers continue to lose millions of shillings to rogue government officials.

From Eurobond, the National Youth Service to the mega scandal at the Health ministry, Kenyans are just tired with the sad news of corruption every day and want action against those implicated.

That is why the statement by the President that he cannot do anything more to end corruption only served to compound matters. It was disheartening but a reality we must live with.

The statement came just before the alleged theft Sh5 billion at the ministry of Health.

Even more astonishing was the fact that some of the individuals implicated are related to senior people in the government.

It was wrong for him to tell Kenyan the war against corruption has frustrated him when he is the one with powers to deal with the vice. He really lost it all when he said he is not to blame for corruption that is threatening his government.

Uhuru must understand that he is the President and therefore responsible for everything happening in his government.

Blaming others for his failure to tame runway corruption was quite unfortunate. Corruption cannot be fought and won by hosting summits at State House which are turning out to choreographed public relations activities for Jubilee ahead of the 2017 elections. We want action on corruption.