Every so often, the Kenyan government comes up with some elaborate anti- graft campaign aimed at curtailing what I will term as the relentless accumulator. The politician or government official who believes his or her primary purpose in office is to enrich themselves while of course doing very little if anything to serve the people.

The culprits are well known and as in recent cases there have been high ranking officials implicated in controversial deals. The contest in Kenya remains the same: the ones at the top say will continue to pursue those who engage in these shameful acts while those directly below them are the chief architects and ultimate beneficiaries.

Politics and corruption, I argue are two very different games and a corrupt politician is cancerous to any society. The war on graft when led by those who are the beneficiaries then becomes an endless cycle because you cannot count on the perpetrators to fight themselves.

The war on graft and the negotiations on how to fight it has taken center stage from the United Nations to the G20, yet corruption remains as rampant as ever and what is worse it is committed by frequent offenders who have been put in charge of public coffers. There is a serious lack of commitment in the fight as the government officials have not only lost credibility but also are clearly not interested in negating their bottomline.

Private companies on the other hand have found a haven in the country because they can freely undermine laws and best practices at the behest of political and government leaders. Kenya, therefore lacks the moral and political will to fight corruption and what you hear from the government is just enough fodder to keep you occupied in the pen as they raid the silos!

The fish stinks from the head down and any meaningful change must start by just not naming and shaming but also holding our leaders whose names appear in these lists of shame to account. We need an executive branch willing to play ball, an independent Judiciary equal to the task and a legislative branch full of members in it for the service and never for personal gain.

To all Kenyans:Let us not just wear this anti graft shirt, let us live it!