There is a study that has revealed that six out of 10 people reporting to work in Kenya get there with the intent to steal. Another two don’t get there intending to steal, however if they see the opportunity, they will steal.
In Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s, Devil On The Cross, which was published in Gikuyu as Caitaani Mutharaba-ini in 1980, we come across VVIP thieves who have come together to boast about their larcenous prowess. Among the things you are expected to crow about are your cars.
Dr Brendon Nicholls, a lecturer in African and post-colonial literature at Leeds University, has suggested that the negative energy that drives these pressures is a factor of neo-colonial disruption of simple rural order. In the volume titled Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Gender and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading published in 2010.
Na huyo jamaa amepatikana akifyonza petroli toka tractor ya wenyewe akaamua kukanyaga mtu na kuhepa. Naivasha ina vituko. @oldmonk umefanyaje mzungu after kufumaniwa ukiiba?
The vicious corruption all over is the root cause of all these…Kila mseh anakua na ile mentality ya “nikipata napita nayo”. Sababu mwingine pia akipata atapita nayo bila huruma. We live in a country where corruption is sooo deep ,it is entrenched in our bone marrows…the headhonchos practise it live…non of them has been sent behind bars…anglo leasing, nys, goldenberg, eurobond et al…
At the end of the day even a peasant wants to get even by robbing, stealing etc…