DOES CORRUPTION DAMAGE SOCIETAL NORMS?
Corruption eats at the moral fibre of a nation. Norms and traditions once appropriated by the corrupt instantly transform themselves into curses. Harambee for example is today not the culture of philanthropy and community service we once knew. Rather it is a political tool highly concentrated amongst political rent-seekers that fails to deliver what it promises. How else can you explain that whereas 60% of all harambee proceeds are ostensibly for education related projects, the fact remains that our children’s’ future has been stolen from them by consistently low-levels of educational achievement . The Ministry of Education heavily mismanages its vote through uncollected and unsurrendered funds each year and yet teachers go unpaid. A society that it not educating its youth and glories in vanity harambee projects turns those youth into a future criminal and dysfunctional class.
