Patronage politics and graft in Kenya

Gachagua’s impeachment reminds us that appointments based on pacts signed in between political leaders is the reason we have too much corruption. 

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The Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi disclosed the other day that the government has requested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to conduct a new corruption and governance diagnostic on key institutions in the country.

He said that the major institutions that drive the economy will all be investigated during the exercise, arguing that because the issue of corruption keeps coming back, only a thorough and comprehensive diagnostic can tell us where the biggest incidence of the scourge is domiciled within the public sector.

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