CORRUPTION THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN KENYA, WHAT A SHAME!

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evolution is indeed a good project whose initiators aimed at having the country grow at an equal rate, this was aimed at solving the problem that had been caused by the nature of governance which saw all the resource distribution to be skewed due to centralization of services by the central government, indeed it was aimed at having the resources in the local areas and the local skills of the people living in the rural areas be made good use of, it was also aimed at helping the people get most jobs which were to be generated by the county governments. Its main role was also to solve the problem of constant rural- urban migration in search of services and goods.
However, this has not been the case; most of the county bosses have taken this as an opportunity and a turn for them to feast in the citizen’s hard earned revenue that they pay very faithfully to the government. However this can not only be blamed on the county government but also in the national government which has seen scandals after another with the recent one being within the heath sector
Corruption has become like the order of the day; the role that one has to play in the act is to be involved then start blaming one party to another. This is very evident in the county sectors and the national government with each party blaming one another of their corrupt ways. It has come to the knowledge of the public that the money that was to be used to aid the free maternity care as now ended up in the pockets of the “Nyama Eaters” the county bosses have been heard and overheard complaining of the delayance of the county funds which are aimed at improving the health sector by the national government whom they blame to have delayed the release of ksh.7.2 billion reimbursements for the free maternity.
Taking on the critics of the health sector, the health permanent secretary Mr. Nicholas Muraguri defended the health sector claiming that the county governments are suffering from the problem of poor book keeping. In April 2016,  the governors claimed that the national government owed them 7.2 billion  worth of two years arrears for free maternity reimbursements. Muraguri disputed the figures accusing the counties of poor book keeping. “This year, the amount that was allocated for the health sector for the same purposes was ksh.4.2 billion, it comes with conditions that demands that the county governments should actually show what they actually were used to do rather than playing blame games with the national government.”
According to Mr. Muraguri, the national government only owes the counties ksh.1.48 billion and not the ksh.7.2 billion as claimed by the county governments. These figures according to him are the arrears of the year 2014-2015 financial year he went on to claim that these are the figures that even the treasury is aware of. This is just an array of what type of corruption the country Kenya is engraved in.
Even though there has been a continuous blame game with each sector of the governments having what to say in each others defense, there is yet another gravious scandal in the ministry of health which has seen 5.2 billion disappear.  In as much as the internal audit in the health ministry gives its values, there is another version of the same with the cabinet secretary for health claiming there is nothing like that, and he claims that these figures have been overblown in the air
When you as a learned person as your are is told that the amount which was to be used in the procurement of A was again used in the procurement of B , what does this show? With that knowledge in procurement, I tend to believe that when some allocation has been made in order to procure A then it is A that it should end up being used to procure not that it can again be used in the procurement of another commodity B
The health sector is a devolved function, the question is, why is it that the money that is intended for the health sector is again used by the national Ministry of health by the national government yet it is a devolved function. With this I think there is someone that isn’t telling the truth and it is high time the leaders should come out  clean and say what they mean when they sat no  irregularities has been seen in the procurements of the mobile clinics which are still kept somewhere yet to be delivered.
5.2 billion Is quite a large amount that can actually be used to help these of our unable women who have always ended up loosing their lives during child birth. It is quite disheartening when our most beloved mother, the first lady of the nation madam Margret Kenyatta to go around the country in order to source for funds to aid her beyond zero campaign, yet there are some moles seriously gnawing on billions of shillings.
As the health sector continues to scrawl on its belly, there are still a series of corrupt people who have become too hurtles to mess up with the money that is meant for the poor mothers who have constantly lost lives during child birth. This is quite a shame and I tend to thin that it is high time me and you should stand up and say no to corruption.
Let’s continue engaging each other through these platforms and speak against this vice as a nation

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