 Good morning to you. My name is Dereva Hillary and this morning we're talking about the shame of corruption and just like you have seen with the video that you began our broadcast with, it's so embarrassing that Ashu is held abroad to showcase how corrupt we are, taxing even the charity. I'm speaking to Litzu, he's a political analyst. Good morning Litzu. Good morning, how are you? I'm very well. How have you been over the weekend? Are you embarrassed as I am as a Kenyan speaking of corruption because it has now gone to another level where a live show is held abroad to demonstrate how corrupt we are to a point of even charging, calling it charity tax, that's how that man described what he was requested for. It happened in Mombasa and this someone was coming to help Kenya. So what do you make of this? As a Kenyan, as a young Kenyan, I'm very much embarrassed first of all and you see that to our surprise our leaders on our stations are not ashamed of themselves. They don't feel that pinch. They don't take it as anything. For them they just take it casually. They just take it like a by the way. Or they can type it and say maybe these are just the whites who like speaking again in the African countries because those are some of the defense our leaders will come up with. Instead of sitting down and looking into the problem because corruption itself it has been a vice in this country. Corruption has killed our democracy. Corruption has killed our security. The education sector has been infiltrated by corruption and also the economy itself has been affected to a large extent by corruption. So when she like that person was coming was coming to provide services to the country that will benefit the common monainchi. But now his goods were stuck at the Mombasa port and he requested to give out something so that he can get to whatever he wants to get. And we forget whatever is bringing to the country is to our own health not to benefit himself but to benefit the country at large. So these are some of the things that we need to look into seriously and we need to step up as youths, we need to step up as a country and as a nation so that we can fight this thing. Because when you look at the economy it cannot grow it cannot grow why the trader or the small trader somewhere will incur so much due to corruption. Now when he or she incur so much due to corruption who suffers the consumer because you will get this person will come and inflate the prices that the consumer will not be able to manage as the market price. Now this one affects the revenue collection because when the trader cannot sell it means this trader cannot trim his taxes. If a trader gets goods which he needs to sell then he sells at the highest price because of the corruption because the trader also needs to meet these costs. Remember the trader when going to get the license for the license to come out quickly he had to give out something. For the commodities to come for him to get the commodities he has to get to pay something. Now these are the costs who needs to meet this cost the end user who is the consumer. Now the consumer may decide I don't want to get I rather sit down whatever you want to give me or I rather use other mechanism to get it. Now this trader at the end of the day because he has not made any sales at the end of the day at the end of the month he will return a nail sale to carry. Now there is no revenue collected. These hampas the revenue collection hence there is no development because we need to develop from the taxes that we give out. On the education sector why is it that we don't have good infrastructure in our schools? Why is it that even our children who have finished 4-4 of class 8 is despite the fact that we have the 100% transition they cannot go to school? They desired school. Why? One because the government has no funds to distribute to pay the school fees for this. I see promised when it was coming to power. So the children will be suffering at home because of lack of school fees. Remember the parent has been told education is free and we expect it to be free. So unlike you and me who went to school sometimes back why it was the responsibility of our parents to get that school fees to take us to school. Now a parent sit down and relax and waits for the government to pay for the school of this child. But even if you wanted to tie for our children it would be difficult because the economy is hard and it's hard because of the people who are on the top. I want to supply some goods that's a tender but I have to push my tender to go through. And in return I will supply whatever commodity I'm selling because I pushed for it. Someone would have offered better commodities than I am he's left out because of corruption. I just want to bring in one of the comments he said that he was called and told if you want these machines because they were drilling machines if you wanted to take the way you wanted to offer this charity was told you'll have to pay something. And you see the problem is who is speaking about it. It's not a Kenyan. Someone far from who and he says he has not been in any other African country and experienced such. But Kenya makes the whole impact and he says he has heard of Nigeria but he has not been there. But he makes Kenya to be the greatest. Come on Ghana is leading. I'm not saying we are okay to be number two but seriously last year no 2018 there was some math that was done on how corruption has been a problem in Kenya because it was believed the amount that we lose like say three months is equal to Thika Road. And I was imagining by the end of say financial year how many Thika roads would we be having. Lot because of corruption. Just last week we saw what happened to the Senate. They decided to send funding and writing to whom because of corruption. As much as we send him home because of corruption but have we recovered whatever he took from the government. No. We have not recovered and we never recover it. As much as this person will go to court will do what this amount of money shall never be recovered. The NYS story the money have never been recovered. So these are some of the things that you need to look into. Even Kimu Arora. And Arora the amount has never been recovered. We are still waiting for investigations. Right now from June July we need to pay the debts that we have that we owe China. Where is the money? We don't have the money. And that's why even the parliament is raising is working on raising the ceiling of borrowing so that it can borrow then it pays the debts. That is the mother the parliament is working towards to borrow then pay the debt. And we shall remain indebted in the high use sums of money if we continue doing what we are doing right now. So what we need to do is to step up. If there is corruption in whatever way because corruption hampers a lot of things. We cannot grow economically believe me or not. We can never grow because of this corruption. Remember this person was coming to offer services to our country. We can say he was coming to do free of charge. And that's why he called it a charity tax. He is coming to do free of charge. Why do we subject such a people to such a things to corruption? And yet right now the rains we don't have mechanisms of harvesting that water. We shall and when it will come to that time when the rains are over there is a dry season we shall be crying of hunger. And yet we had mechanisms that we can manage so that we can do what have that change. Ethiopia has worked with the US to ensure that it constructs a one kilometer dam in the region. The head war with Egypt and Sudan Osomalia because of the river Nile. But the US has said we are going to work and complete that project because the project was to end by the end of last year. But it didn't come to an end due to those conflict. Now it's going to come to an end. Ethiopia will never experience things to do with hunger because it is working on food security. Two years from now onwards Ethiopia shall never experience anything to do with hunger. Our country when we sit down when we talk of development instead of doing the development we look at how we can embezo the funds. How can we benefit ourselves from that? For a few individuals and we forget the society. We forget the people who are supposed to benefit from those projects. So these are some of the things that we need to look into. Democracy has been also deteriorated due to corruption. Because we end up electing leaders that are not visionary, that are not up to task. That are either aim is just to still and not benefit. And we are also the cause of this because when a leader or when somebody needs to be elected then this person comes to you. Instead of you looking at the ideology of this person you are looking at how much this person is going to give me. Then this person sees it's better I buy these waters because it's a matter of buying them. They have showed me that I need to buy them. They are not interested in my ideology. Then let me buy them. That's why when an MP cannot account for the 100 million shillings that is given every year for CDF. And so is the MCA for the 20 million? MCA cannot account for it. The women have their own kiti. They cannot account for it. If we can account first of all for these leaders if they can account for their funds that are given so that they can support monainchi then we shall not have a problem in this country. But we go on not looking at an ideology of an individual but what is going to give me. Somebody give me 500. Most of these people who come to us they have very visionary points. We feel them, we see them and they promise us and we can see they will do it. But once they are in the house everything changes. Do you blame me as an electorate? No. Those fallashas, lucrative ideologies that somebody runs with. Like for example the fallashas and lucrative ideologies that the government trained when they were coming to power. The stadiums. If they could have best mechanisms if they could have best managers who could have implemented the projects Kenya will be very far. Because the stadiums is also a source of income. It is also a way of improving our sports. Now when you come to education it is deteriorated because of such things. There is not much funds in the education system. Look at the security. Why is it that we have the KDF in Somalia which is also bringing a lot of security to our country. There is somebody benefiting. I just did my few consultation with a few individuals from there and asked them why is it that this was a security officer from that region. Why is it that we cannot have serious security measures in Garisa so that we can finish this al-Shabaab. The UN cannot get out of UN peacekeeping because the UN has invested a lot of money to us so that we can be at the peacekeeping. And these monies go to few individuals. Now we are being fought by Somalia because of such things. If we withdraw from Somalia and the Amazon then we shall never be in the peacekeeping. It is good if we withdraw and stop being at the peacekeeping for our country to be safe. So if we get out so the monies will not go to this. The monies will not come to the country. Which favors few individuals in the military and other areas. So these are some of the lapses that we have. These are some of the major corruption that also goes in the security sector. Because our major problem is security, democracy, education and economy. Because investors cannot come to the country. That guy is an investor. He cannot come to the country. And how many investors who are interested in coming to the country in the western countries who have viewed that clip. They cannot come. Actually it is so much trended. I am imagining the people who have watched it and this was a live broadcast region. It is so embarrassing. Now that you speak of us being the wrong people we bring this trouble to ourselves. Just last week we saw our cadros have been banned This is a Kenyan market that we are losing. So in as much as we are blaming our leaders we still need to blame ourselves because we have become so much greedy. You see, and that's what I say at times we lose focus and our priorities are not well set. The avocado thing was politically instigated. It was just all about showing us we have connections with these nations that we can supply avocado. It was not well managed from our end. People were not well trained on the avacados. And do you remember the other time the leader student told people you cannot keep on planting maize. Plant avacados. Fine, you plant avacados. We have avacados. Where are we going to take them? How should we manage these avacados so that you can be able to sell them to the markets to the international markets. So the other day when people cried about the rice there was a time we cried about rice that is a plastic rice from international markets that was being brought to the country. Right now it is now a matter of flipping so that we can now entice the voters that lets people buy rice from the common market in Muaya at it a five shillings. Why didn't we have these measures before? Because the government itself has been buying the rice the government institutions the military, the NYS and other forces have been buying rice from outside the country. So as the Kenyan become smart coat and coats they give us fake rice now we are giving them fake avacados. First of all these avacados is not the first time they are being neglected or they are being rejected. It was there before but it was not in the lion light. So today it has just come on the lion light just because things have become worse. But if we can come out and do things in accordance the way we are supposed to do them. We take time because look at the flowers nobody has rejected the flowers from Kenya they are well much embraced outside. If we can take time and study about the agriculture sector on avacados and how we can import them they will best thing but the problem with us is that we hurry up things there are those ones who are fully informed they do it to the best they supply but there are those who are interested to do it but they cannot do it they only hurry up and then they mess up the market. Alright. Just a final one. The DPP was very under when he came into office and he has been doing a good job but in the recent past a few days ago it seems things are cool does it mean things are better now or we should wait and see what he has in store? You see first of all I can say the DPP was all about the show off because one the people who he arrested the cases are still pending in court if they are guilt or not guilt one there is no watertight evidence on these people the person is taken to court today the DPP will ask for more time for investigation more time for investigation then it comes and lapses there is no issue about that person again so it was all about a show off what we need to see I don't need to see somebody going to jail because of corruption but I want to see a case that has been looked into to an extent where the judge will say we don't have enough evidence to put this person in jail so this is enough evidence that this person should go to jail and the other thing is I believe and law should be put in place or actually be put in place to expedite this issue of economic crimes because they take so long and justice is not delivered because one person will stay in court forever with these cases and no justice will be delivered but these are some of the problems that we need to look into also when you are talking of changing the law so we need to focus in such areas of economic crimes how are we going to handle them apparently we had a very few minutes to talk about this but I appreciate you came and you made it it's a shame that we are talking about corruption over and over again I'm hoping there's a time we will completely don't have anything to do with corruption and we will have discipline and dignity to carry our economic education and every other thing that concerns every citizen and a common citizen to a place where we will be ok thank you so much for coming and back many thanks for keeping us company he has been my guest SIRAS Literacy Political Analyst coming up next is Val keep it OI 254 my name is Dereva Hillary