Why Corruption is Encumbrance In Kenya

Corruption is a form of dishonesty undertaken by a person entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire personal benefit. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement or misappropriation of public funds, fraud, breach of trust, taxes and imposed levies just to mention a few. These practices are illegal to many countries. Over the past few days we have had more than 5 cases of corruption in one week, this is quite alarming and our economy is quickly fading out. Some of the cases have been with the NYS, NCPB, Kenya power, Kenya Pipeline, Health corporations such as NHIF and many more. Kenya’s growth and development is held back by such cases, there are high levels of corruptions in every sector of the economy in Kenya such as judicial system, the police, public services, land administration, tax and custom administration, public procurement, legislation, natural resources and civil society are some of the sectors in our country that are rampant with corruption issues. With these issues of corruption growing each day, our country Kenya has lost its competitiveness, we face poor infrastructure, increased costs of goods and services due to high taxes, increased poverty, poor medical facilities and services, no investments in our country from both local and international investors, high levels of unemployment, increased crime rate and insecurity, shoddy projects, social unrest and loss of trust from international people losing out tourists. We all know we need to end all these before it’s too late, its’ not up to our leaders anymore but to all of us. We need job creation, economy growth, improved living standards, improved infrastructure, we need to use our resources to develop our country and make us proud among nations and be proud of our long lost slang “najivunia kuwa mkenya” During our forefather celebration “Madaraka” day, our President appealed to all Kenyans to join him in the war that we have started, to vanquish corruption and all hail do we all want that. “Runaway corruption” is the new project for our leaders we all hope this will be put to practice, but we all know our problem, talk….talk with no action. Millions of Kenyans are putting their trust on fighting this corruption that has become entrenched in some of our people. lets join hands and fight this animal corruption