Actually this very simple assignment. I will start with personal anecdote. Just this Sunday I was drinking with my uncle and bro - all of us are in transport & maize business - my bro in matatu, my uncle and I are in maize cum truck business (- and we were discussing what best crew to have - and conclusion was the best drive-turnboy- you can have is a corrupt but smart crew that although steals from you - knows how to find work (contracts, etc). The worst crew you can get is an honest bongo-lala who will just wait for you to do everything. I remember talking with another uncle who owns tractors - and he was of the same opinion - almost always the honest drivers are the most useless who'll drive you to bankruptcy.In short you've got to be really stupid not to steal when the opportunity is staring at you.. If we were talking tribal - you'd rather hire a thieving kikuyu who will make sure you both thrive - rather than honest luo who'll confine you to poverty. It more like Tanzania versus Kenya. Tanzania is an honest poor man. Kenya is thriving thief. Obviously the worst is thief who does nothing but steal - thankfully those end up in prisons pretty quickly. Lazy thieves soon get caught
Now talk of countries that have thrive with corruption...start with kenya (compare it with other sub-sahara countries).
But more important look at Chile & Indonesia. Indonesia...Suharto stole 35B dollars...my man Ruto is just at 2B..but Indonesia grew in leaps and bounds. The same is true in Chile.
Kenya want smart hardworking thief like Ruto. He'll make his money but kenya (the owner of the truck) will make even MORE. If you put a bongo-lala like Kalonzo - he'll drive the country down like Tanzania now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe Kenyans are very smart to have selected Ruto, Waiguru, Sonko and Waitutu - just like we are smart enough to hire some of most corrupt drivers to drive our busineess. Only a fool will not take care of his self-interest. That fool will drive the business and country DOWN.
The driver we want in Kenya is Ruto - smart, hardworking go-getter who get the job done. We will ignore that he'll be taking his cut for every deal he cut us. That is what wakes him up - it incentive to work hard for the country - he get his cuts - but country get a bigger junk of the steak. If you insist on banking every cent and watching the bottomline..you'll soon have nothing to watch. Ruto is so ambitious he'll be in office at 5am - making money for the country and getting his cut. Bongo-lala like the rest will arrive at work around lunch hour before retiring to soon for more binge drinking.
Ruto has 30 yrs of nothing but EXEMPLARY performance - be in in the party, in parliament, in cdf, as cabinet member and now as DPORK. That is what we want!Pundit I would like to see examples of corruption being somehow a positive to national development. Any corrupt Tigers? Don't conflate dictatorship with corruption.