Role of Media Exposés – Ruminations on Kenya’s record of High Level Crimes and Grand Corruption Scandals
The 'Artur Brothers' - Picture Courtesy of The Standard. Yesterday’s widely viewed KTN feature Jicho Pevu aka. The Untouchables – a feature viewed within the country and certainly went viral online clearly awakens us to the reality that we a governed over by a bunch of hoodlums who will stop at nothing to quench their unquenchable and indeed insatiable desire for wealth and power. The exposé , a follow up to a previous one, late last year, that brought to our attention high level crime and corruption perpetrated by officials at the center of state power, further helped tie loose ends on the linkages between a sudden increase in violent crime, arbitrary arrests, detentions and extrajudicial killings, and grand cover-ups of economic scandals that have faced the country over the past few years. This feature set me thinking. I can name at least half a dozen exposé s by the media about high level crimes and corruption that have taken place in Kenya. The Julie Ward Mur