President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday during the Madaraka Day celebrations announced a raft of measures that his administration intends to deploy to tackle the menace of corruption.
Amongst the raft of measures is the revolutionary polygraph testing that will be used on procurement heads in government.
It is a measure that is sure to send chills down the spines of those implicated or engaging in corruption.
''Let me now mention just one part of a raft of measures that we intend to implement to tackle corruption. As an initial step, all heads of procurement and accounts in government ministries, departments, agencies and parastatals will undergo fresh vetting including polygraph testing,'' the president said.
This will be the first time that a Kenyan president has so publicly rooted for polygraph testing as a measure of dealing with the problem of corruption.
His announcement comes in the wake of shocking revelations of corruption in government institutions.
Mr Kenyatta said that those who would fail the vetting would be sent home.