- Theft of public assets is deliberately mischaracterised as corruption, not theft.
- Then they set up an anti-corruption commission to fight it.
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Theft of public assets is deliberately mischaracterised by being called corruption, not theft.
Then they set up an anti-corruption commission to fight it.
Why don’t we have an anti-corruption and anti-theft commission? What is corruption?
So, they have mischaracterised it just like they have done with cattle rustling. Instead of calling it robbery with violence, they are calling it cattle rustling or a cultural activity.
Once you mischaracterise it, then you can distort it.
The anti-corruption commission and all these agencies are mechanisms for the elite to protect themselves from the consequences of theft.
That is why they end up hitting the small officers like secretaries and what have you, but very big boys are never touched. When the money is big, nobody touches or investigates you.
So, it is a big joke. I don’t know why they cannot just allow the economic crimes unit in the DCI to just do its work.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is headed by a bishop, for heaven's sake.
If you look at the constitution itself, EACC cannot fight crime.
The commission is supposed to implement Chapter Six, which speaks to integrity.
This means that people report to work on time, are smart and do not have bank accounts elsewhere.
If a meat inspector comes across a butcher selling bad meat, they call the police.
The reason why the anti-corruption agency is calling the police to intervene, and not taking up the matter themselves, is mechanisms to show the public that something is happening when in the real sense nothing is happening.
Even if police arrest the suspects, after a short while they are released.
The fight against corruption must begin with the chief executive of the country– the President.
If the chief executive is the one who condones corruption, then we are going nowhere. President William Ruto has been very dramatic in demonstrating that he accommodates corruption.
He released people with questionable character. He has not demonstrated any capacity to fight the vice of corruption.
Corruption is a method of doing things, just like them. You can. You don’t fight theft, you fight thieves. So, how do you fight corruption?
Busia Senator and public litigator spoke to the Star