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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Simanova on July 06, 2016, 06:33:14 PM
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This guy has failed. He should resign and go back to receiving handouts from Nyachae.
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Finding out why he, along with his predecessors, failed makes more sense then simply demanding he be sacked and replaced.
But then again, this is Kenya.
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In most cases, services rendered by their companies or cronies are substandard, prices exaggerated and not given in time.
Most public schools' principals have turned to be wheeler dealers, are rarely in school, are seen moving around towns and cities either looking for land deals, supervising their projects, looking for tenders to be suppliers to other schools or working behind their relatives' registered business companies to win supply orders.
It is near impossible for students, parents and other visitors to access principals' offices.
Students in the affected schools can confess that some never get near the principal's offices for the entire period of four years they have spent in school.
School managers employ their close relatives in most critical offices to help them conceal their illegal and illicit trade they are involved in within their institutions. It is time teachers unions start campaigns in schools and advice them to stop using street preachers as mentors to students.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/ureport/article/2000207635/poor-leadership-behind-student-unrest
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Matiang'i should have first addressed the major problem is schools and that is corruption. Students do not get what their parents or the government pays for.
Finding out why he, along with his predecessors, failed makes more sense then simply demanding he be sacked and replaced.
But then again, this is Kenya.
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Matiang'i should have first addressed the major problem is schools and that is corruption. Students do not get what their parents or the government pays for.
But isn't looking into what causes corruption, not corruption itself, more revealing of what's wrong and what needs to be fixed?
Here's a little list worth thinking about:
- Personal greed that leads to an unfettered desire for money or power, with no regard whatsoever to moral boundaries. The underlying anthropological cause is the innate human impulse to own external goods, when it is not subject to personal integrity. Is personal integrity less valued than it used to be? Is there a need for religious or other types of motivation that were once stronger?
- Decline of personal ethical sensitivity, either due to lack of education or negative learning experiences, developed by downplaying perverse conduct in the past. Should ethical education be put under review? Is it time for a personal reassessment with sincerity and repentance, to learn more about its influence in promoting positive learning?
- No sense of service when working in public or private institutions. This is seen, for instance, in those who use politics for their selfish interests, instead of serving the common good through politics. How can we promote politicians and leaders with a true service-oriented spirit?
- Low awareness or lack of courage to denounce corrupt behavior and situations conducive to corruption. That is the case of someone who is aware of corruption and stays quiet. They simply cover for the corrupt individuals, perhaps thinking that it is not their problem, or perhaps out of cowardice, so as not to make their lives more complicated. Would it help to promote a culture of denouncing corruption?
- Cultural environments that condone corruption. Such as defending or even admiring crooks (“you have to be pretty smart to evade taxes”). Or rationalizing false arguments with no moral basis (“everyone does it”; “take advantage while you can”; “life is short”). Who ought to promote that culture? Social leaders? Everyone?
- Lack of transparency, especially at the institutional level, but also in less formal organizations. Knowing that what you do is seen by everyone, wouldn’t that deter acts of corruption?
- Regulations and inefficient controls. Increased regulations and control mechanisms are probably not the answer. They are costly and tend to stifle initiatives and administrative dynamics. But why not have better regulation and more effective control in areas prone to corruption. Is that so difficult?
- Slow judicial processes. In some other countries, we would have to add “and unreliable” to that statement. Swift processes can have a greater exemplifying effect than those that, by the time the sentence comes, the crime already is nearly forgotten. Justice requires appealing processes and warranties, but not if it means slowing down the administration of justice. Do we need more judges, but also better processes?
- Lack of moral criteria in promotions. Corruption is prevalent when there are no criteria for proven integrity and responsibility in the promotion. Such criteria are ignored when someone is promoted simply because of their loyalty to whoever is in charge or those in control of the party. Or if it is only their strategic or organizational skills that are evaluated. Obviously, someone can be wrong when making a promoting someone, but there should be no problem distinguishing between a simple mistake and culpable ignorance due to negligence or a lack of ethical assessment. Is it an issue of ethical shortsightedness?
- Downplaying or reacting mildly to corruption charges. Little power of decision within organizations to penalize acts of corruption to set examples creates an environment conducive to perpetuating corruption.
"Fighting" corruption without tackling the underlying causes is what we've spent decades doing.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
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Matiangi is not the problem. A whole generation has lost faith and the result is burn burn burn.
Corruption is not just stealing from govt.
It also includes moral values that have gone out the window, and you can do anything as long as you get lotsa money.
Same thing in Europe. BREXIT is a result of the regular guy being neglected at every point.