President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto have on several occasions said they will rule the country for 20 years.
This is wild confidence in a country running low on optimism in the way the two have been running the country.
When Uhuru authorised Treasury to pay Sh1.4 billion to two Anglo Leasing-type firms in May 2014, this was the death knell to fighting corruption in the country. Corruption has been the greatest disgruntlement among Kenyans since the Uhuruto team assumed power in 2013.
Uhuru had promised that his government would deal ruthlessly with graft. The two came to power after a hotly contested election where they rallied Kenyans to reject the colonialists who were recolonizing the country again through the International Criminal Court-ICC.
Four years later, Uhuru authorising the payout may have precipitated the onslaught against public resources by individual and corporate looters who have amassed wealth in the short time Jubilee has been in power.
The downhill trend for the government which many had hailed as youthful and transformative was also accelerated when the president assented to a legislation allowing MPs to increase their salaries against the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC’s) recommendations.
And so, the UhuRuto government has been plagued by corruption scandals with the latest being the Afya House one where Sh5 billion is alleged to have been misappropriated.
If Kenyans vote against the government due to these scandals, Jubilee will go home- making Uhuru a one-term president.
Among them is the Sh53 billion laptop tendering which was rejected by the court but the whereabouts of the monies already allocated by parliament were unknown.
The Sh314.2 billion Standard Gauge Railway Tendering which is allegedly inflated due to a single sourcing anomaly.
There is also the Sh55.6 billion JKIA New Terminal which was allegedly irregularly tendered through the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) and the Sh38billion medical equipment leasing.
The government also single-sourced Safaricom for a Sh15 billion CCTV project meant to keep the urban centres safe while Uhuru’s deputy William Ruto allegedly spent Sh100 million on what has become the infamous hustler’s jet saga.
Other alleged scandals are the Eurobond saga, the NYS heist where almost Sh2 billion was stolen and the culprits remain free, Galana irrigation scheme and billions of shillings unaccounted for in various ministries according to the Auditor General’s report.
There are several other scandals which are yet to be comprehensively addressed and which may cost the Jubilee government another three terms in office.