Why maize and school cash thieves must be made to pay

FURTHER TO THAT, AS WE ARE SEEing, bringing to book corrupt activities does not have to be in a short term time-frame.

There are growing examples around the world, and even in Kenya, where people who thought they had got themselves immunity by hook or by crook faced prosecution at a later stage.

Let us remind ourselves yet again. The multiplicity of scams in the Free Education Programme and NCPB maize sales and government maize imports in 2008 was not just any type of corruption. The corruption cases are body-blows against Kenyans.

As a result, many parents have been denied a fair and reasonable education for their children – an education they could not otherwise afford. Food has been snatched off the tables of many who have gone hungry or even died.

This is a very callous form of corruption that must be made an example of.

Mr Shaw is a Nairobi-based businessman.