The cost of political corruption and natural disasters

The pressure is no longer on our wives and women to maintain “marble flat” tummies after your treatise on “The Pressure That Killed Stella Obasanjo.” …but Administrative corruption.
 
The extent of systemic corruption in government tells us more than poverty about the consequences of natural calamities.
 
Haven’t you browsed through the daily mail Newspapers and the BBC world news websites: - Thousands drown after Elnino floods, an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude kills people in Haiti…
 

By Chika for Africa

Definitely, this will always occur in countries greatly colonized by evergreen corruption. Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Elnino, and Flush floods would be more violent in regions ruled by fraudulent leaders; leaders who are selfish enough to deny others the right to life. This is because in countries with higher “Corruption Perception Index” (CPI), development activities are initiated without following the defined codes and regulations.


 
Corruption doesn’t only bring down life and buildings but social institutions; corruption destroys both the mortar that holds together physical capital and the glue that binds social capital.
 
Political corruption is what can best define government officials who unethically use their rather democratically gifted powers for illegitimate private gains. Corruption is not limited to Kenya alone. There are Tens of thousands globally who suffer the impact of corruption daily as tallied by Transparency International (TI), one of the best non-governmental organizations headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Try typing into the google search box "Corruption" and the results and wait for the search results; Corruption in India, corruption in Nigeria, Corruption in Kenya, Waiguru corruption case, Uhuru and corruption and Images of corrupt government officials; this sums up to Corrupt Leadership.
 
The fact that we are still embracing corruption can be one way of amending the qualifications of our leaders. Soon, Political leaders would produce certificates of proven corruption in order to get to the job.
 
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Administrative corruption is so rampant in Africa and in most third world nations that it’s almost an alien culture. Hellman and Jones call these “private payments to public officials to distort the prescribed implementation of official rules and policies.” Could it be colonialism that leaked systemic corruption into Africa? The ancient Africans never knew tax, the military, and policemen, the warriors then were purely for community protection; today, they are tools for hire, reserved for the wealthy Billionaires class.
Categorizing types of corruption, the cause of corruption, and identifying champions of corruption has unfortunately been someone’s multi-billion full-time job; Transparency international. It may appear too common to us making it difficult for us the wananchi to understand its gravity. It's shocking to get to know a one-hundred-year old granny to vividly also knows that corruption is the disease that is now affecting Kenya but some folks may say that is being "DIGITAL” and "INFORMED" as they call it as the old grannies can now grasp a word or two in English.
 
It may sound funny and rubbish but the time of understanding it well is when we will be feeling its consequences which are ruthless so to say.

The fact that corruption is slowly becoming the daily menu of our beautiful nation Kenya is making us to focus majorly on the corrupt individuals rather than finding a solution to eliminate it for good. It was just recently when there was rampant leakage of the K.C.S.E examination but the solution that was being employed was to cancel the whole examination yet the problem is with the examination body itself. Why punish innocent and bright students for a fraudulent mistake initiated by you?
 
Apparently, the overhauling of the educational sector has proven rather difficult because the people who are made ministers of education (or science & technology, agriculture) have no passion for the growth and development of the African institutions but the positions could be a mere appreciation of party loyalists who played the part for the govt to ‘win’ the general election
The best solution that could be offered would be:
 
To fire the officials since by retaining them nothing is solved at all. Cushioning corrupt officials only extends the culture of impunity; no public servant should appear immune to the ethics code.
“Yeah, as individuals we must ensure the societal space is clean and corruption free and find guys of similar values to align with in order to build up accountable and progressive leadership for the future.
People should limit the culture of consumerism and pursue productivity.
Strengthening ant graft institutions for example EACC in Kenya.
Promoting religion and religious teachings that condemn corruption and high dependency in the communities since people listen to their religious leaders as well as political leaders.
Building national values based on the African culture; this would limit the extra capitalist formalities instilled to many by the white man’s magic.
Initiating massive economic growth and development measures that would limit societal poverty.
Corrupt people are criminals and shouldn’t be spared a bullet.
Providing both formal and informal education on corruption and leadership; to fight corruption, the community should learn that Merely shouting from the roof tops that everyone is corrupt creates a larger atmosphere of corruption.
Those in the political leadership should stop misuse of official authority; this includes an award of government contracts and tenders after bribing instead of focusing on competence.

The fact that we are embracing corruption risks changing the qualifications that leaders need to attain in order to acquire certain positions. One may be asked to produce a certificate showing that he or she is corrupt in order to vie for certain positions if we will continue cosseting corruption thus providing favorable conditions for it to breed.

I fear that if we will continue tolerating this cancer, we are going to the dogs and we are the ones who will face the consequences of what we are doing. Let us join hands and decry such practices by calling a spade a spade and remove the corrupt from office.

Breast feeding Youth Graduates

 

 I HAVE NO IDEA WHO WROTE THIS BUT IT MAKES INTERESTING READING & FOOD FOR THOUGHT. 

Friends,

Let me add the benefit of my time as a student and then resident in the UK-and I live in Nairobi now. 

The first thing that I discovered about UK-born, white, English undergraduates was that all of them did holiday or weekend jobs to support themselves-including the children of millionaires amongst them. It is the norm over there- regardless of how wealthy their parents are. And I soon discovered that virtually all other foreign students did the same-the exception being those of us status-conscious Kenyans.

What Does your Birth Day Mean

CHECK YOUR DATE OF BIRTH OUT. (DOES IT TRULY DEFINE U?)

Nevertheless, you're one of my #whatsapp users teams that shy any WhatsApp post that isn't a mega joke by that single funny WhatsApp group member.

Do meanings of our birthdays exist anyway? let us get scrolling up to 20th ...

                        Born On The 1st

You are a very friendly person.  You love the good things in life. You are very ambitious. You seek stable, long-term #relationships. You have good #leadershipskills - if you channel your efforts in the right direction, you can go very far in life.

             
                      Born On The 2nd

You are a very helpful person. You make #friends easily. You tend to be very #loving and caring in your relationships. You are very optimistic and confident about the things you do. This is a quality that will help you to get ahead of others in life.

How Not To Be Poor .

If you have never discovered what poverty is then you will be marveled at realizing how Bill Gates, Larry Page, POTUS, and Pope Francis work so hard to make a Life.

Is life only about Dollars?

Definitely with money life is more Canaan. And what are these life skills that one needs to embrace to escape this live cancer; #poverty .?

These are 10 life hacking life skills that will get you miles away from #poverty.

1. Arrange to be born Wealthy

2. Get a decent full-time job after getting your useful degree 
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3. Don't spend all your life savings on #pizza, video games, and PS.

4. Give a man a gun and he can Rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can Rob the world. Get an honest #hustle

The Retired Genius (TRG)

It is 20th October, the 'employed' Kenyans are all at smiles,  celebrating a day away from their bosses. To the employers and other Kenyans, it's a normal public holiday where the ruling class under umbrellas address their fellow countrymen who by then drenched in sweat under the midday Sun.

Aside,  Waliuba Nakiboli Gilbert would be shuffling  Sonko's streets in search of a better cake house.

The Facebook Hbd Autosender robots will have long been overwhelmed by the 3980 friends ; each yearning to pass the message; "congratulations Waliuba  for joining the list of heroes and Happy Mashujaa Day."

10 WAYS TO BE HAPPIER WITH YOUR WORK LIFE

After uploading your resume on almost all  Job websites on the internet you eventually have a Brighter Monday ; but Is your current job the career you always loved to achieve? what about that Boss whom you believe has fewer  Harvard and Oxford university degrees than you do.The Payslip is lean but you can't just quit your meager salary and Job.

Soon you realized  Job searching  doesn't always  meet an opportunity; but when it does,how  do you  manage your work life.
 Here are ten tips that will help you manage your work life.

This' the modern metals ore that ladies call fashion

Pierced ear lobe

Afraid of Fashion? Then ask yourself:

Is the modern lady bewitched by fashion? If you’ve been at the Eagle’s view point you won’t take seconds to say yes…From the Capital Cities, University streets and even Village pathways; you won’t miss a glance of these overrated Fashion seekers.

But is fashion best expressed by how many manholes on someone’s body?

Maasai serrated and massively punched earlobes are tourist attractions…Yes! The latest appetite by the modern lady to perforate everything everywhere is nauseating…I said it. This is nevertheless a culture not driven by realistic fashion but nasty peer intoxication.