“[Corruption] is on a grand sale, it is on a grand industrial scale,” in Kenya, said Horn of Africa analyst Abdullahi Halakhe.“The former president said almost 2 billion shillings are lost in corruption every single day. It is on a grand scale … [but] unlike previous generations, this generation, just by the stroke of a keyboard, will be able to access all the companies that members of parliament and all the people close to the president are owning,” he told Al Jazeera.When it comes to President Ruto in the aftermath of this crisis, Halakhe said he “is mortally wounded”.“The biggest problem now [Ruto] has is people will not listen to him. What he says and what he does, those do not match. He said he was willing to listen [but] he deployed the Kenyan defence forces. He said he was willing to listen [but] more people have been shot today. So it doesn’t matter what he says.“He is mortally wounded. The trust and legitimacy deficit that he is engaged in right now is going to take a very long time to heal – all the while the economy is not in the best shape. So his options are not choosing between good and bad options; he only has bad options …“[Kenyans] are saying enough is enough. [Ruto] might not go, but he needs to be deeply worried.”
Source: al Jazeera news
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