Kenya
Date:
13/07/2009
source:
Daily Nation, Kenya
News Snippet:
The Kenyan government will this year spend 33.4 Mill KSh (roughly 320.000 Euro/440.000 USD/270.000 GBP) for renovating the private residence of Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga. According to the further plans, the allocation of money for Odingas private residence is going to rise in 2010 to 55 Mill KSh (roughly 520.000 Euro/730.000 USD/450.000 GBP) and to 77 Mill. KSh (roughly 730.000 Euro/1.020.000 USD/630.000 GBP) in 2011. By the end of the current term of Parliament, 192.8 Mill. KSh (roughly 1,84 Mill. Euro/2,56 Mill. USD/1,58 Mill. GBP) will have been spent in the rehabilitation of the PM's private residence.
According to officials the money will go into staffing the PM's residences to enable him to host State functions and visitors, but does not include the cost for hospitality, for feeding and entertaining the visitors.
Date:
05/07/2009
source:
Transparency International
News Snippet:
According to the latest Transparency International Bribery Index Report, Kenya is the most corrupt county in the East African region followed by Uganda, Tanzania was the least corrupt.The Index measures the extent of bribery in the region of East Africa and is based on actual interactions of citizens with public institutions and resultant demand for bribery and payments.The level of corruption stood at 45% in Kenya, 34.6% in Uganda and 17% in Tanzania.
The Police was listed as the most corrupt institution, followed by the judiciary, the defence ministry and the public service. The Uganda Revenue Authority was the only tax authority in the region that appeared among the top five corrupt institutions. Further on the hitlist where the three power utility companies in the region, TENASCO of Tanzania, Kenya Power and Lighting Company and UMEME of Uganda, but also public services have extorted bribes from citizens include water, security, health, licencing, immigration and infrastructure.
New on the list of corrupt institutions in Uganda are The Aids support Organisation (TASO), Mulago Hospital, religious organisations, secondary schools and universities and international organisation.
Date:
02/12/2008
source:
BBC
News Snippet:
Kenyas anti-corruption watchdog announces, that according to various proven sources seven current and former MPs have taken illegal allowances. The money involved is said to be a total of 250.000 USD.
Eric Wainaina is a Kenyan songwriter and musician. He entered the music business just when he had almost finished his university. He then moved to Boston to get a real glimpse of the music business.
Wainaina sings in his songs about the actual threads in social life in Kenya, about corruption, bureaucracy and tribolism. He tries to bridge the ethnic divide in his country, especially after the unrest following the presidential elections in 2008, and asks in his songs, mainly sung in kiswahili or his tribal language kikuyu, for unification among Kenyans.
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