As thieves fall out, wheels come off Kenya’s embedded corruption networks

New permanent secretaries can be tied up in knots by these old guard types with their creased suits, frayed collars and extensive landholdings in the east of Nairobi and their home districts.

With these key middle-level components of the network being sent home, the most confused lot in this town are those left in “acting capacities’ who don’t know where the real files are.

Brokers, briefcase businessmen, the relatives of the high and mighty and representatives of senior politicians are harassing them with calls to conclude deals in a highly unstable atmosphere.

John Githongo is CEO of Inuka Kenya and head of Twaweza Kenya