Today's Headlines
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- Resettle IDPs, Urges Annan
- Uhuru, Muthaura Have Done the Right Thing
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- Concern Raised As Parents Shun Schools in Poll Violence Hotspots
- Ruling On IEBC Hiring in February
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- Speed Up Building Port
- Uhuru and Muthaura Did Well to Quit Posts
- A Full Plate Awaits Githae
- Clashes Continue in Moyale
- Baraza Case to Be Heard Monday
- Two Firms in Joint Venture to Drill for Oil Near Lodwar
- Exit Uhuru, Muthaura
- ICC Charges Hound Uhuru Out of Treasury
- Consumers Grow Despite Inflation
- Poor Relations Between Banks Blamed for Cash Shortages
- Fish Prices Up As Vegetable Supply Dwindles
- Consumers to Pay More for Milk and Bread As Prices Rise
- Kibaki Tasks Ex-Dar CJ to Lead Probe in Kenya
- Mombasa Port Cargo Congestion Forces Three-Month Fees Waiver
4 August 2010
editorial
The jailing of South Africa's former police chief Jackie Selebi for accepting bribes from organised crime should be a salutary lesson to all those among our leaders and even security officers who have chosen to make corruption a way of life.
Nobody would have expected Selebi, a man who at one time headed Interpol as president and was a stalwart supporter of the ruling ANC, to stoop so low, but he did.
"Corruption by members of the police force can never be tolerated" said the judge while passing sentence "it is the very antithesis of what the police force stands for."
Those very words should be inscribed on our own Police Commissioner's desk so that any officer hauled before him for breaking the rules can read them there.
Another lesson should also go to those agencies formed to fight corruption. Kenya is one country where no high-ranking government official or political figure has ever been punished for graft, yet the scandals that keep erupting are mind-blowing.
Let us hope the new anti-graft czar, Dr Patrick Lumumba, is given all the right tools to do the job.
