Discuss 4 ways to eradicate corruption in Kenya

1 Throw the current policy, legal and institutional frameworks for combating corruption into the dustbin. They are ill conceived and cannot achieve their intended or presumptive goal(s).

2 Rethink the Ndegwa Report’s recommendation that allowed civil, public and state officers to engage in private business. The fight against corruption shall never get anywhere so long as we allow this conflict of interest.

3 Constitute a multi-disciplinary think tank, comprising intellectuals and practitioners from various fields, to formulate new policy, legal and institutional frameworks for combating corruption. The think-tank should be wary of an ultra-legal, linear or single-dimension approach to corruption.

4 Grant unconditional amnesty to all corrupt acts and omissions from the colonial days to date. The corrupt are too entrenched, having enjoyed unhindered access to state patronage since the colonial days. Any attempt to fight past corruption will never get anywhere. They will easily overrun the best professional teams from our State Law Office, the Police Service and the DPP. In other words, fight corruption prospectively, with effect from the date of the new policy, legal and institutional frameworks set out in

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