Folks, seeing the indictments that are coming now from DCI makes it clear that in Kenya, corruption is a multi-generation enterprise. Daddy usually steals and the kids get good education in Canada, the US and the UK and will shortly come here as corporate honchos.

Success and high achievement must be celebrated but ask yourselves how many corporations offer partnerships and directorships to generation 2 just because daddy can influence public procurement in GoK?

This multi-generational transmission of the proceeds of corruption means that we cannot respond to corruption policy through a moral approach. The state must be reformed and yes, the chase for public money must focus on systems, not the values arguments that we hear.

So don't be fooled that the "kids" are always bystanders when daddy and grandpa are raising the public purse.

Most of the corruption in the public sector would be impossible without a mid-level professional having knowledge of, and actively abetting it.

Methinks any Kenyan who is studying abroad should reflect deeply if daddy works in the public sector and is able to pay your fees of at least $30,000 p. a. since this is equivalent to 20 times the annual per capita income.