Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Corruption, my take and why we are winning

Now every person is focusing on the corruption report just released. While I conglatulate Dr. Leakey for highlighting this sick cancer that has permiated all levels of our society, it is worth noting that this disease was propagated and nurtured during the past regimes and has become a way of life to most of our people. The problem of corruption is in attitude.
For too long it was portlayed as cool to be corrupt, it was encouraged, if you wanted to fast-track the existing bureacracy all what was wanted of you was to part with money, as a result, more red-tapes were introduced to create yet more sources of "income" for these individuals. Now what we never understood was the nature of the problem at first, by concentrating on the corrupt individuals we were doing more or less nothing, these would be replaced by others who would, because people thought this was the right way be forced into the corruption system.
We have changed tact now and we are demolishing all red tape and areas that encourage this practice. We are also educating the public. The immigration department is now one of our models on how clearing red-tape almost always is followed by efficient and non corrupt service. I believe now most of you are asking, what about the report ??? So here is what happens the police department is the most corrupt, reason, I have to say this loud; THE LAW, yes, the law is the most misunderstood of anything in this republic. By a citizen not knowing his right, its very easy for another person to exploit that ignorance, and how are we going to tackle this ? I am currently having a team of first class LLMs look at the most commonly abused laws and to have a public campaign to educate the public on them and what is expected of them, of course the most corrupt arm of the police is the traffic department. We are arranging to have instant ticketing and to cut down the powers of the traffic officers. This is hard work since we have to also look at the welfare of the citizens from rogue drivers and other road users, a bit of patience is required here :)
In all other areas we have managed to slash corruption on average by about 67% and I am happy now that corruption is all exposed and that is why you can see it, which is why before you never heard of it but was more widespread than today.Kenyans have to elect their leaders wisely otherwise there are people who are willing to tke this country from wherever it has come from. My take is that we are winning, we are relentless and every mistake we make serves to enhance our experience and resolve, I hope you will join me in this.

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