AWAY WITH IMPUNITY IN OUR HIGHWAYS

This ugly monster of corruption and impunity will not just go away, simply because the common citizen has made a decision to banish it as much as possible verbally and tame it as much,action-wise,talk about the proverbial old woman who decided to hide leopard fleeing from hunters in her cloak, and later the leopard ate her. The highway police, despite constant exposures by the media,wont just stop taking bribes from corrupt conductors and drivers, at the expense of the life’s of innocent commuters, but the moment the vehicle leaves and nobody raises any question concerning the illegal transaction that has just happened to sell their lives everybody, including the commuters becomes as guilty, of corruption

Is it too hard for KACC to plant their officers in matatus and arrest the culprits of this annoying habit on the spot? Or for the passengers to pounce on the police and the conductor and frog-march to a police station, remember that case in which search an incidence occurred in 2005?is it too hard for Kenyans to say to the police they are not ready to part with bribes they are ready to face the judge? Is it too hard a task for the Kenyan police officers to say they don’t want any bribe, that is equivalent to buying the lives of fellow Kenyans at a mere fifty shillings!

Kenyans should start the fight on corruption from grass root level and that starts with individuals, they should raise alarm at the slightest suggestion that they part with a bribe. Integrity in the police force must be restored and impunity nabbed at the bud from our Kenyan roads and the careless loss of lives will end.