


Kenya: Petetion to His Excellency the President Uhuru Kenyatta for Expedient and Decisive Action against Grand Corruption (03.11.2016)







A Statement Issued by the Kenyan CSOs on November 1, 2016
Since independence, Kenyan public has been treated to a cocktail of abominable theft, plunder, squander and waste of public resources, while the institutions tasked with the mandate to probe and deal with the said scandals have repeatedly sanctified the same. Bailed as the most corrupt and unaccountable administration in Kenya’s political history so far, the Jubilee regime’s 4 years in power has been characterized by rampant, reckless and mindless looting and misappropriation of state coffers.
The situation in the country remains so grave and dire that the official Auditor General’s report for 2015 found that just 1% of Kenya government spending and a quarter of the entire 1.6 trillion shillings budget was properly accounted for. Current reports indicate that Kenya loses approximately 600Billion shillings out of its annual budget of 2 trillion (close to 30%) through wanton theft and waste. Imagine what this amount could do in supporting health care for the poor, provision of quality basic education, clean water or employment for our youth?
Specifically, the Kenyan CSOs note with concern the following systemic and vicious failures of the political establishments, both at the national and county levels: That as noted by John Githongo, a prominent anti-corruption crusader, “corruption in Kenya has deepened and widened since President Uhuru Kenyatta came to power in 2013”.
It’s in response to the president’s admission of helplessness, his inability to act, and the failure by the different state agencies to admit responsibility in the midst of wanton theft of state resources, that the Kenyan Civil Society is calling a national mass demonstration to demand for urgent and systematic actions against mega corruption in Kenya.
We have planned sustained political actions to ensure zero tolerance to and increased accountability for public theft in Kenya.
“The ODM party won three out of four by-elections that were held on Wednesday in different parts of the country. The CORD affiliate party won in Nyacheki in Bobasi constituency Kisii county, Kalokol in Turkana central constituency in Turkana county and Mosiro in Kajiado west constituency while Jubilee party won in Sala ward in Bura constituency Tana River county” (NTV Kenya, 2016)

“Wiper Democratic Movement leader, Kalonzo Musyoka said the Jubilee leadership had a hatched a plot to use a tyranny of numbers in Parliament to change the constitution in order to remain in power forever. Kalonzo who was on a two day tour of Kisii and Nyamira counties expected his coalition partners in the opposition to support his presidential bid in the 2017 general election in a bid to kick out Jubilee. Kevin Mutai has that story” (NTV Kenya, 2016)





