Corruption Scandals in Kenya: Hundreds march against It in Nairobi

[eliakeem]

My Opinion.

I was thinking the new constitution brings the vaccine to prevent it. But insteady of decreasing, the corruption in Kenya is increasing at alarming rate. We real don't know where are these jubilee people lead the nation!!!? When these gland corruption will end in Kenya? When will impunity and nepotism will stop in the country? When this mwizi wetu will end?

A protester lies down on the street during an anti-corruption demonstration by hundreds of protesters who marched to the Parliament and Supreme Court in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, May 31, 2018. Kenya’s leader is under increasing pressure as outrage grows over a number of corruption scandals involving tens of millions of dollars revealed in recent weeks around the ministries of health, energy, agriculture, public service and youth. (Ben Curtis/Associated Press)


by Associated Press May 31 at 8:44 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya — Carrying signs saying “Kenya is bleeding” and “Stop These Thieves,” hundreds of people marched Thursday in Nairobi to protest against widespread corruption and deliver a petition to the office of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Kenyatta is under increasing pressure as outrage grows over a number of corruption scandals revealed in recent weeks around the ministries of health, energy, agriculture, public service and youth.

This week 24 officials were charged with corruption-related offenses in a probe linked to the alleged diversion of nearly $80 million.

“We are tired of the theft that is going on in this country. We have waited for so long for action to be taken but nothing is happening,” activist and marcher Ndungi Githuku told The Associated Press.

“The kind of money that they have stolen this time is money that is embarrassingly huge,” Githuku said.

Kenyatta, long criticized for not acting against corrupt officials, said Wednesday there “will be no mercy for the thieves.”

In a separate statement on Wednesday, diplomats representing 18 Western countries including the United States urged strong action against graft.

The president, who won a second term last year, declared corruption a national security threat in 2015.

Kenya is considered among the world’s most corrupt countries, ranked 143th out of 180 nations by Transparency International in its annual corruption index.

Since Kenya’s corruption watchdog was created in 1997, all five of its heads have resigned or been forced out of office in what analysts say is a result of the country’s deeply entrenched graft.

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[eliakeem]

Jubilee utawamaliza wakenya. umekuwa bingwa wa kuiba, halafu unaanza kutukama tudagaa twa NYC. where are mapapa na manyangumi? Shame on you.

 

[Lewis254]

rephrase your opinion.

 

[eliakeem]

rephrase your opinion.

How can the constitution interrupt the graft and looting in Kenya?

 

[Mpendwa1]

rephrase your opinion.

Thank you, I was struggling to understand his/her opinion too.

 

[Mpendwa1]

How can the constitution interrupt the graft and looting in Kenya?

I think it will have to start with mwananchi wa kawaida since sisi ndio tulipigia katiba mpya kura, sasa tufanye wajibu wetu.

Nafurahi sana nikiona watu wakifanya maandamano kama hapo umeonyesha juu maana inaonyesha tumechukuwa hatua mpya. Kuna nchi nyingi ambazo zina ufisadi lakini hutadhubutu kuona watu wakitetea haki yao. Kwa hivyo hii ni hatu nzuri kwa wakenya kutokezea hadharani na kutetea haki yao. Kitambo hata hatungeweza kufanya hivyo bila kutiwa jela, so kudos to the brave men and women who are speaking up on corruption.

 

[qwest]

Kenya inaenda backwards, nchi zingine zikisonga mbele.

 

[Mpendwa1]

Kenya inaenda backwards, nchi zingine zikisonga mbele.

Nadhani ameuliza swali kwamba "katiba inaweza vipi kumaliza ufisadi" sina hakika kama umeelewa swali lake au la.

 

[mwaswast]

Jubilee utawamaliza wakenya. umekuwa bingwa wa kuiba, halafu unaanza kutukama tudagaa twa NYC. where are mapapa na manyangumi? Shame on you.

Ile 1.5 trillion ilipotea tu hivo bila wananchi kutaka kujua nani kazichukua?

 

[eliakeem]

I think it will have to start with mwananchi wa kawaida since sisi ndio tulipigia katiba mpya kura, sasa tufanye wajibu wetu.

Nafurahi sana nikiona watu wakifanya maandamano kama hapo umeonyesha juu maana inaonyesha tumechukuwa hatua mpya. Kuna nchi nyingi ambazo zina ufisadi lakini hutadhubutu kuona watu wakitetea haki yao. Kwa hivyo hii ni hatu nzuri kwa wakenya kutokezea hadharani na kutetea haki yao. Kitambo hata hatungeweza kufanya hivyo bila kutiwa jela, so kudos to the brave men and women who are speaking up on corruption.

Mlikusanyika kumuapisha Raila, lkn everything remain as it was.

 

[qwest]

Nadhani ameuliza swali kwamba "katiba inaweza vipi kumaliza ufisadi" sina hakika kama umeelewa swali lake au la.

Na maandamano yali achieve nini

So many new taxes are being implemented and we know all that money is being stolen

Then the electoral commission circus.

Ni michezo na sarakasi bure kabisaaaa.

 

[MK254]

Labda mjinga wa kiwango cha juu ndiye atakaa ategemee katiba imalize ufisadi, katiba ni stakabadhi inayotoa muongozo wa tutaishi vipi baina yetu, lakini yenyewe haina uwezo wa kujua nini kinafanyika baina ya mafisadi wawili wanapopokezana rushwa faraghani.

Katiba mpya imetusaidia sana na hadi leo sijawahi kuijutia, inayo mapungufu ambayo huwa tunayajadili jinsi ya kuboresha, lakini hatukusudii kurudi nyuma tukaishi maisha ya uwoga woga kama Watanzania wanavyoishi leo, nilisoma sehemu mnavyonyamazishwa, kila anayesema chochote anajikuta akizushiwa uraia, juzi kiongozi wa Twaweza tayari kapokonywa cheti cha usafiri.

Suala la ufisadi ni mfupa uliomshinda fisi, ni vita vinavyohitaji jamii yote ijitokeze kupigana, katiba haiwezi kusaidia dhidi ya watu wawili wanaojifungia maeneo ya siri na kupokezana hela ambazo wote wameridhia, katiba inalinda pale pamehusika unyanyasaji halafu ushahidi ukapatikana wa kutosha. Katiba yetu imekua kama upanga wenye makali pande zote maana tumeshuhudia hata rais mwenyewe akinyamazishwa na sheria pamoja na kwamba ana cheo kuliko wote nchi hii.

Katiba mpya inazipa taasisi uhuru wa kujiendesha bila kuingiliwa, tumeona hata mahakama ikibatili uchaguzi mkuu, tumeona mafao mengi sana ya katiba mpya, watu wameanza kuwa na imani na taasisi mbali mbali. Sio kama Tanzania waziri au mkuu wa mkoa anaweza akaamrisha polisi wakamate kamate. Sehemu niliona eti waziri Lugola anaamrisha mkuu wa polisi asake mbwa aliyetoroka, hehehe vituko vya ukosefu wa heshima baina ya taasisi.

Uzi huu unaonyesha jinsi Kenya leo hii tuna uhuru hata wa kujieleza, watu wanajitokeza na kuandamana, hebu jaribu hili Tanzania. Siku fulani tuliona kamdada kanaitwa Mange kalisababisha mapolisi yakakimbia kimbia nchi yote.

 

[Iconoclastes]

One- million- man protest spanning days to occupy parliament, statehouse, govt streets etc would send a resounding message to these rapists of our beloved land.

Hizi tprotests tdogo za upuuzi will achieve nothing. Hawa watu wametuzoea sana.

 

[Iconoclastes]

Kenya inaenda backwards, nchi zingine zikisonga mbele.

Kenya is not regressing, even with the endemic corruption, thankfully...

 

[eliakeem]

Kenya is not regressing, even with the endemic corruption, thankfully...

(Grand) corruption is a part of the Kenya's day to day routine. Actually, the country is rotten for corruption.

HAPANA sumbua ile mwisi yetu.

 

[Don YF]

(Grand) corruption is a part of the Kenya's day to day routine. Actually, the country is rotten for corruption.

HAPANA sumbua ile mwisi yetu.

You are blind and have a limited mindset. Corruption is not "much" in Kenya now, it has been there since the days of Jomo Kenyatta, but with the improvement of the system and informed populace, not blind patriots like majority of Tanzanians, corruption is exposed left right and centre. You cannot kill a hidden snake, it must be exposed to be destroyed. Our media, public, and whistle blowers are vigilant like never before, as the president is willing to even convict his own brother if found guilty. The reason kuna reports za scandals hapa na pale, it's not that zime increase, it has been there only that they are being exposed. I wonder when the rot in Tanzania will be exposed. You can't have such a big country, with resources, and a running port, but you are now a 55bn GDP, LDC, and on poverty index, you have the poorest people in this region and SADC, if we exclude Ethiopia. Kuna poisonous snakes in Tanzania hiding in CCM and corporates, surviving on ignorance and gullibility of Tanzanian people. Uzalendo wa kipuzi sana., too blind, deaf and unable even to smell the rot in your country. Shughulikia hali yenyu kaka.
Kenyans are awake and vigilant, hatujafika bado, but we are heading somewhere. You will see and read many of corruption stories in the media, kwasababu we expose them to destruction. Can your government allow its media to scrutinize its projects, and even do an independent audit to verify how the government spend pubic money?., viombo vya habari, na watu wenye wanapinga ama kunyosha kidole mahali kuna kasoro is threatened, like the research company that showed umarufu wa Rais John Pombe Magufuli umedidimia, it's CEO's passport was confiscated and he is not allowed to leave the country. Tanzania ni ovyo sana!!

 

[eliakeem]

You are blind and have a limited mindset. Corruption is not "much" in Kenya now, it has been there since the days of Jomo Kenyatta, but with the improvement of the system and informed populace, not blind patriots like majority of Tanzanians, corruption is exposed left right and centre. You cannot kill a hidden snake, it must be exposed to be destroyed. Our media, public, and whistle blowers are vigilant like never before, as the president is willing to even convict his own brother if found guilty. The reason kuna reports za scandals hapa na pale, it's not that zime increase, it has been there only that they are being exposed. I wonder when the rot in Tanzania will be exposed. You can't have such a big country, with resources, and a running port, but you are now a 55bn GDP, LDC, and on poverty index, you have the poorest people in this region and SADC, if we exclude Ethiopia. Kuna poisonous snakes in Tanzania hiding in CCM and corporates, surviving on ignorance and gullibility of Tanzanian people. Uzalendo wa kipuzi sana., too blind, deaf and unable even to smell the rot in your country. Shughulikia hali yenyu kaka.
Kenyans are awake and vigilant, hatujafika bado, but we are heading somewhere. You will see and read many of corruption stories in the media, kwasababu we expose them to destruction. Can your government allow its media to scrutinize its projects, and even do an independent audit to verify how the government spend pubic money?., viombo vya habari, na watu wenye wanapinga ama kunyosha kidole mahali kuna kasoro is threatened, like the research company that showed umarufu wa Rais John Pombe Magufuli umedidimia, it's CEO's passport was confiscated and he is not allowed to leave the country. Tanzania ni ovyo sana!!

Umeongea kwa HISIA saana. Lkn UKWELI ni KUWA hakuna vita inayoendelea Kenya dhidi ya ufisadi na RUSHWA. SABABU kubwa ni KUWA kati ya wooote wanaopigana VITA ni mafisadi walioshindikana. Hapo ni kesi ya ngedere kupeleka kwa tumbili.

 

[Mpendwa1]

Na maandamano yali achieve nini

So many new taxes are being implemented and we know all that money is being stolen

Then the electoral commission circus.

Ni michezo na sarakasi bure kabisaaaa.

Unless you were just commenting on a different note, bado hukujibu swali lake. I was merely pointing out what u had said did not answer the question that was posed, but again, if u were just making a statement then that's fine. I just could not connect your response to the question asked.

 

[Peter Gitimu]

How can the constitution interrupt the graft and looting in Kenya?

Thats not the work of the constitution. Its role is to establish government and its structure and various organs, major offices within government ( e.g. the Attorney General), kenyan citizenship, provide the rights and freedoms, and other state provisions.

Since it is a crime, the role of curbing corruption is under the following laws;

1. Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission Act (2011).
2. The penal code Cap 63.
3. Proceeds of crime and anti-money laundering Act Cap 53.
4. Leadership and integrity Act
5. Public finance management Act
6. Public Audit Act
7. Fair Administration Action Act.
8. Criminal procedure code
9. Other international legislation against corruption.

 

[Mkikuyu- Akili timamu]

You are blind and have a limited mindset. Corruption is not "much" in Kenya now, it has been there since the days of Jomo Kenyatta, but with the improvement of the system and informed populace, not blind patriots like majority of Tanzanians, corruption is exposed left right and centre. You cannot kill a hidden snake, it must be exposed to be destroyed. Our media, public, and whistle blowers are vigilant like never before, as the president is willing to even convict his own brother if found guilty. The reason kuna reports za scandals hapa na pale, it's not that zime increase, it has been there only that they are being exposed. I wonder when the rot in Tanzania will be exposed. You can't have such a big country, with resources, and a running port, but you are now a 55bn GDP, LDC, and on poverty index, you have the poorest people in this region and SADC, if we exclude Ethiopia. Kuna poisonous snakes in Tanzania hiding in CCM and corporates, surviving on ignorance and gullibility of Tanzanian people. Uzalendo wa kipuzi sana., too blind, deaf and unable even to smell the rot in your country. Shughulikia hali yenyu kaka.
Kenyans are awake and vigilant, hatujafika bado, but we are heading somewhere. You will see and read many of corruption stories in the media, kwasababu we expose them to destruction. Can your government allow its media to scrutinize its projects, and even do an independent audit to verify how the government spend pubic money?., viombo vya habari, na watu wenye wanapinga ama kunyosha kidole mahali kuna kasoro is threatened, like the research company that showed umarufu wa Rais John Pombe Magufuli umedidimia, it's CEO's passport was confiscated and he is not allowed to leave the country. Tanzania ni ovyo sana!!

Free and democratic society is not the solution to corruption. China is not a free society yet corruption is zero, the corrupt are hanged irrespective of their status.
The meaning of freedom and democracy in kenya is freedom to steal and rape the economy, Every tribe wants this freedom