No state in sub-Saharan Africa has a better organised anti-corruption infrastructure than Kenya. In a society where theft is a political strategy normalised among wananchi, Uhuru...
Deep inside the Finance Bill 2018 is an amendment on the Tax Procedures Act, 2015. Its intent is to protect illicit money returned to Kenya from...
Corruption in Kenya isn’t about greedy procurement officers, fiddling civil servants, crooked businessmen, shady bankers, thieving politicians. These are merely creatures of an inherently corrupt political...
Uhuru’s contentious second term may have opened with the announcement of his ‘Big Four Agenda’ last November; in reality, his final term has only really taken...
On March 6, Finance CS Henry Rotich writes a letter to the IMF appealing for an extension on a US$ 1.5 billion Stand-by Credit Facility, effectively...
By the twilight of the Moi era, the effects of economic plunder had restructured Kenyan society. 20 years on, under UhuRuto, corruption is better dressed, digitised...
The Deputy President is today considered Kenya’s most frightening political figure. If he is indeed the motivation behind ‘the handshake’, that dynastic rapprochement between the Kenyattas...
As President Daniel arap Moi’s rule came to an end, demonstrations of public exhaustion with his long stupefying tenure started to manifest more and more starkly...
The Elephant in conversation with Edward Ouko, Auditor General of the Republic of Kenya
One of the most extraordinary achievements over the past decade, the past three years in particular, in the conduct of public affairs has been the normalisation...
Oligarchs, Cartels & Icons On the morning of the January 15, 2016, hundreds of Al Shabaab militants attacked a Kenya Defence Forces base at El Adde...
