Kenya – a country in deadlock
Corruption in Kenya is widespread and often exposed, but impunity is total. The police and security services are chronically and thoroughly corrupt and inefficient. The President’s corruption controller is in exile.
The violence after the fraudulent 2007 election was a gigantic setback for the confidence of Kenyans in the possibility of influencing policies and appointing leaders through elections.
Primary schooling is free and even the girls go to school. Digital technology has a huge impact. Cellphone services are being developed locally and now reach every farmer and roadside vendor.
No Kenyan politicians seem to be able to replace the tainted leadership. Both the government and the opposition are still being led by the families that appeared at Independence 50 years ago.
”The police is corrupt”, The President is a drunkard”, ”Now things are worse than ever!”. Many Kenyans have set opinions about politics. But despite more free elections, and despite the open critique of those in power, the country is more locked in ethnic groups and mistrust than it was at the time of the democratic breakthrough.
Corruption is widespread and often exposed, but impunity is total. Kenya is the country where the President’s corruption controller goes into exile. The police and security services are chronically and thoroughly corrupt and inefficient.
The biggest Kenyan trauma in the 2000s is the violent conflicts after the 2007 elections, when in particular groups of Kalenjin and Kikuyu exerted brute force against each other. Over 1000 people were killed and several hundred thousand were displaced.



