A Looters Paradise?

The Mars Group Blog writes:

Over the past week, there has been a renewed Government proposal, seemingly in response to public comments by ex-PS John Githongo, to grant conditional amnesties for corruption as a means of dealing with the past. Githongo’s proposal seems to be based on one of the elements of the Usawa Programme an election manifesto proposal of the Orange Democratic Movement – Mr. Githongo is associated with authorship of Usawa’s anti-corruption aspects...At a moral level, the Government’s proposals are discriminatory and will, of necessity, immunize certain known persons (named in numerous reports including the Kroll and Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry) for crimes at a time when Kenyans are generally opposed to selective immunity for the elite, and when poor Kenyans (such as Mburu, Mburu and Muiruri) do not receive the same treatment in their encounters with the criminal justice system...[continue reading]