WHO WILL STAND AGAINST CORRUPTION?
From: Fuambo Janyandito
In the wake of the FPE financial scandal and the call by Bishop Owuor for church leaders to be transparent, each of us need to echo the call to transparency in all available media and to all public servants, private sector employees, NGOs and the private sector.
The response to Bishop Owuor’s call by church leaders, the lackluster
response by the government on the FPE scandal and the silence by politicians and civil society over the scandal are pointers that scandals of any magnitude do not matter in Kenya and the old saying that: A MAN EATETH WHERE HE WORKETH still rules supreme in Kenya.
In this information age, it is not funny when funds are misappropriated
from a public and donor funded national program and it takes months before it is discovered. Kenya boasts of qualified accountants and IT experts who because of tribalism, nepotism and corruption are economic refugees elsewhere, leaving semi literates(cannot apply basic IT in management processes) who are schooled in corruption to man important public programs.
It is also not amusing when the Minister of Finance mocks the public by saying that the hole poked by the thieves will be filled by public funds. Our ministers should know that public resources are not personal.
What we want to hear is that personal accounts are being frozen, personal property is being attached to refund the stolen money, and responsible public servants fired. The money was not stolen by some monkeys but by people-fellow citizens charged with the responsibility of overseeing the program.
If the churches were clean, I am sure they would be standing up in defense of Kenyan children and putting the government on its toes over the embezzled funds. However, the management of institutions under their care is wanting and riddled with corruption and all manner of evils hence none of the church leaders can rebuke public servants and politicians.
Many NGOs and CSOs are also characterized with corruption and lack of accountable governance structures. Thus they have no credibility to question corrupt practices.
Kenyan private sector is not an exception with its management riddled with opaque practices and arbitrariness.
The average Kenyan not to be left behind after religiously learning from the churches, private sector,public sector and NGOs believes that one becomes a hero by helping himself/herself from MALI YA UMA and therefore considers it bad manners to shout against the so ‘heroes’
What all of us should do is to flee from the devil, recant our evil ways,
repent and walk with God. Otherwise Kenya will perish soon and we are doomed with it.