It will be the happiest day of my life and a historical day for Kenya if I’m proved wrong. But I repeat that the current war on corruption is a smoke screen. Or in other words, a train heading to a place called nowhere.
Former President Moi. Sly old fox of a politician who never went to Makerere University (or any other university), excellent horse trader running circles around the Kibaki administration.
Here are my reasons
1) The old tell-tale signs of past so-called wars on corruption have began to show where the government starts prosecuting small fry (heads of parastatals) to divert attention from the big fish. Many ‘small guys’ are being arrested or relieved of their jobs pending investigations, all over the place to give the impression that the government is serious about fighting corruption. Meanwhile the big fish are starting to breathe a huge sigh of relief.
2) The Kibaki administration started off in what seems to have been the right direction by including Goldenberg in its’ net. If we’re going back why not go all the way to where it all started with the Kenyatta regime?
It is a big joke that Uhuru Kenyatta is heading the Public Accounts Committee investigating Anglo Leasing when his father, Jomo Kenyatta, oversaw the beginning of corruption in high places in Kenya. A careful investigation of President Jomo Kenyatta’s assets when he took office and at his death will lay bare the facts. Uhuru grew up with cash from grabbed assets and grabbed land. Not to mention the fact that this was also blood money because innocent Kenyans who dared to attempt to blow the whistle on corruption lost their lives. Kungu Karumba (whose remains were never found), Tom Mboya and JM Kariuki, to name but a few.
Some senior people in the Kibaki regime who were around in the Kenyatta days and some who made money from their positions as heads of parastatals etc. need to come forward and clear their names of corruption suspicion.
For instance Hon. Mr Michuki a member of the Kibaki cabinet, needs to explain why the period he accumulated most of his valuable assets coincided with his tenure as the chief executive at the then government owned, Kenya Commercial Bank. There are many others.
The Moi family also needs to answer to the Kenyan people about corruption of which the Goldenberg scandal is a drop in the ocean.
These are the real big fish and the government has no moral justification prosecuting PS’s, lawyers like Philip Murgor and managing directors of parastatals before the big fish are first prosecuted.
The truth is that there are some stones that are too heavy for the Kibaki government to turn and that’s why this whole war on corruption is a train headed nowhere. A smoke screen to hood wink the people of Kenya so that the government can win the next elections.
3) The game plan here is to make a deal with the powerful Kanu faction that controls the vast Rift valley and to go into the next elections with a Kibaki/Kanu coalition which should be enough to win President Kibaki another term. There is even talk that the deal calls for the powerful KANU faction to put forward a vice presidential running mate for President Kibaki. Remember our earlier prediction about the political games being played within Kanu? Chances of Uhuru being that candidate are nil. He is a Kikuyu like President Kibaki and it will be impossible to sell a Kikuyu partnership to the electorate, especially when there is so much anti-Kikuyu sentiment in the country after the referendum. Chances of the so-called rebel William Ruto being that candidate are extremely high. Watch this space. Watch also the developments close to retired President Moi and his Kanu faction.
In return the Moi sons will not be prosecuted and as for Goldenberg, the minnows will be sacrificed to appease the people. This is not good news for Kamlesh (aka Paul) Patni (he changed his name you know), all those PS’s linked with Goldenberg and probably Prof George Saitoti. Gentlemen you may just have to carry the cross for the big boys. Sorry, that’s what happens when you get mixed up with politicians.
I’ll be the happiest Kenyan if I’m proved wrong and all those on my list of big fish either stand trial or clear themselves of charges of grand corruption.
