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David Ndii Gives Details On Kenya Kwanza’s New Strategy To Fight Corruption

SK 2 years ago 2 min read

According to Kenya Kwanza Economic Advisor David Ndii, if their political party wins the president in the August elections, battling state capture will be prioritized as the most effective strategy to combat corruption.

Ndii notes that the team led by Deputy President William Ruto would concentrate on bolstering the institutions so they may be given the authority to fight corruption on their own, something he says they feel has caused corruption.

“The structural cause of corruption is the state capture; we are going to start a state capture inquiry, question judicial inquiry,” he said in an interview with Citizen TV’s News Night show on Tuesday.

“We have talked about making IPPs transparent, we want the people to tell us, is our power sector captured? Are there attempts to capture our Judiciary, or are our courts captured? It is not about an individual.”

Ndii contends that the Kenya Kwanza group would have gatekeepers who inform about the causes of corruption and those engaged rather than focusing on people-based concerns like their adversaries have been doing.

Ndii claims that by doing this, they would be able to turn over individuals responsible to the previously stronger institutions, allowing them to handle the situation lawfully and independently of the government.

“We should put people out there, not us so that we are not told we are weaponizing; can you tell us how our institutions are captured and how do we insulate them from capture?” he posed.

He added: “We want the people to do a report which traces the nexus between wealth and power that we believe is the heart of why people want to keep the state captured so that they can shake down investors, remain wealthy at the expense of others.”

Ndii responds that even if it is a priority, they are concentrating on the economy when asked why the faction has not been outspoken in declaring its fight against corruption as its top priority, an issue that has drawn criticism from the competing Azimio political camp.