Friday, February 17, 2006

The donors who turn a blind eye to Kenyan sleaze


This is very bad news. Sounds like another waste of funds down the corruption drain!

Onésimo Alvarez-Moro

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Not since an outraged German banker exposed the multi­billion dollar fiddles President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire has there been such an authoritative account of sleaze in an African state as the revelations of John Githongo, Kenya's anti-corruption supremo.

Appointed in December 2002 to lead President Mwai Kibaki's promised purge of graft, the 40-year-old Mr Githongo personified the new Kenya. A former local head of Transparency International, the Berlin-based anti-corrution body, no one was better equipped to take on the toughest, most dangerous job in Kenyan politics – that of permanent secretary in charge of governance and ethics.

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