“Corruption is a standing threat to our national security”, Kenyatta said Monday in a televised address, while speaking to business leaders, members of the clergy and cabinet ministers in the capital, Nairobi.
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Kenyatta spoke after Bob Collymore, chief executive of Kenya’s telecoms biggest telecoms firm Safaricom, presented him with a proposed anti-bribery bill drafted by the private sector.
“This week alone 72 individuals including a principal secretary and five managing directors were arraigned in court on corruption related offences”, Kenyatta’s office said in a statement. “We will look to sign more such agreements”, he said. “Such leaders can be held to account by their constituents in case of bad governance and can also advise the President as opposed to the current situation where a majority of the hired ministers are technocrats”, the Cotu boss said.
He added that banks would lose their licenses if they violated anti-money laundering regulations and said there would be no tax rises in the next financial year.
“I think today marks a new beginning”.
Kenyattta said the spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, should pursue information and intelligence on the corruption and bring it to his attention, and to the attention of the relevant investigating and prosecution bodies. Kenyatta referred to changes made in the country’s 2010 constitution.
“10 gun attack on corruption”, reported the Standard newspaper with the daily pointing out that President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday unveiled a new coalition against merchants of corruption alongside strident measures.
President Uhuru Kenyatta reshuffled his cabinet Tuesday and named former assistant minister Mwangi Kiunjuri to the docket of Planning and Devolution as Kericho Senator Charles Keter appointed to Energy docket. “Abused the discretion granted to them and the trust placed on them”, Waiguru said, who took the post in May 2013.
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The chairperson of the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) Winfred Lichuma has appealed to President Uhuru Kenyatta to further re-organise the appointment of the Cabinet secretaries based on the two-thirds gender principle.
