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It has been an eventful week for Kenya, rather a bit sad. We have been treated to shocking revelations of corrupt deals involving top government officials and the right Prime Minister Raila Odinga has not been spared either. This came a day after the PM had asked the Education minister to resign over mysterious disappearance of over Shs 100 million for Free Primary Education from the ministry.
The revelation of facts surrounding the infamous maize scandal has literally brought the country to a standstill, even a class one pupil would pass a corruption exam giving vivid examples if they were to sit for such an exam.
Politics aside, the country leaders have proved inept in dealing with corruption and instead they are quarreling and fighting for front seats in the corruption bus in proving how popular one can be in stealing from the public coffers and defrauding innocent Kenyans most of whom are literally earning from hand to mouth with the high cost of living and the tax burden which is even set to become more heavier with the prospective increase of the number of legislatures in the August house.
The obvious thing that every Kenyan is seeking for is Raila's resignation as well his accomplices if at all he is a firm believer and a champion of good/ transparent leadership but he is not likely to honor his words of stepping aside after the damning revelations of how his own family was embroiled in labyrinth web in the name of subsidized maize program. A scheme to feed the poor became a cash cow, the whole maize deal cost the government 2 billion shillings while on the other hand Kenyans continued to suffer.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report on the maize scandal exposes how fictitious companies raked in millions of shillings.
Others set up just before or after the maize subsidy programme was rolled out, turned into a money-minting venture
It names at least three firms that set up shop and obtained thousands of bags. Needless to say our leaders have let us down, but again if this was to be looked into using Marxist lenses, the whole deal was not meant to benefit Kenyans but it was all for the interest of the leaders who used the poor to gain more wealth in the name of help.
