Kenya has turned out as cartels ruled Country where the corrupt are more glorified than the righteous, Its only Country probably in East African Countries where 7o percent of the elected leaders in the assembly have past criminal records.
For instance, the president and his deputy president were indicted for crimes against humanity at the ICC, where the reports of bribes allegations and intimidations were reported to those who were to secure them a destiny in hell.
The deputy president William Ruto was once found guilty of stealing land in Rift valley after 2007/2008 post-election violence and he was compelled by the court to give it back to the owner.
Nairobi governor Mike Sonko has also confessed that he was once detained in Shimo la Tewa for crimes cases where at some extent running away from the prison.
Kiambu governor Ferdinand Waititu also faced the same case where a few weeks ago was arrested in connection to the misappropriation of the public resources.
Waititu was accused of colluding with close friends and relative to steal millions to advance their self-interests.
Already a number of governors both in past and in the current administration have been arrested where some have been arrested over mysterious ways where cases of bribery featured highly.
Experts have termed the president’s directive to arrest corrupt individuals as baseless with the majority arguing that the cartels in the government are highly protected by those who hold a senior position.
The president had formed the Kamata Kamata Friday but it was fought off by those in the system.
James Mathenge, a resident in Nairobi has stated that the office of the DPP and that of the DCI has been turned by political party officials and opposition as guns for hire.
Mathenge states that there are many high profile cases that go unreported as the system has been corrupted by those in power.
“Just ask those in the office of the DPP or in the DCI office, they are frustrated, you a criminal but you would later find him roaming freely because he is protected,” he states.
Sources have hinted that the DCI Kinoti has been turned into a toothless watchdog who can’t make a critical decision without involving those in power.
Deputy President William Ruto had said the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) does not have the constitutional mandate to investigate economic crimes.
Dr. Ruto argued that DCI, which is headed by George Kinoti, lacks backing by law to probe economic crimes, adding that it should hand over investigations to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). “The fight against corruption must proceed on the basis of the correct information and by competent institutions that have the constitutional mandate and institutional capacity so that we can have results,” said Ruto.
In the well-orchestrated onslaught against the DCI, Belgut MP Nelson Koech was the first to draw a line in the sand against Kinoti. “The drafters of the Constitution were very clear in their mind when they dissociated DCI from EACC. Today we declare that we no longer have confidence in the office of the DCI. We want all economic matters to be taken over by EACC,” Mr Koech said.
According to Kenya’s former chief justice, Willy Mutunga, the country’s citizens are at war with mafia-style cartels run by political bosses and corrupt business people. He says that Kenya harbors mafia-style criminals similar to Al Capone’s mob in 1920s America and that this “cartel collects millions every day”.
In a recent interview with a Dutch newspaper, NRC Handelsblad, the respected Mutunga claims that corruption stretches from the very bottom to the very top of society. He says, for instance, that a Kenyan policeman who extorts a bribe from a motorist must share the booty with the head of the local station, who in turn shares the money with superiors possibly all the way up to police chiefs in Nairobi. Larger cartels, he explains, make money through trafficking illegal migrants, counterfeit money, weapons, drugs, and consumer goods.
According to Mutunga, weak state structures in African countries create space for criminal networks to operate, especially when these groups operate along with ethnic loyalties. Cartels collaborate with politicians and military leaders, gaining huge influence and sometimes overshadowing the government itself.