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After 12 years of scandal anti-corruption authorities in Kenya have finally brought charges against key people allegedly involved in what has become known as one of the country’s biggest corruption cases.
Facing court are former finance ministers, permanent secretaries, senior officials and businessmen, all of whom deny the charges – regarded as a breakthrough in the country’s fight against corruption which saw Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and Swiss authorities working together for the first time.
Many senior public officials knew that low scrutiny 'national security' is the last refuge of the corrupt
Skepticism
The prosecuations are totally without precedent, in a country where elite impunity with regard to corruption is the norm
For many profit trumps security and for some in the international community security trumps democracy and accountability
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