December 30, 2009 in Corruption 0

Kenya’s corruption

According to the United Nations, the average Kenyan makes $777 a year. Yet members of Kenya’s parliament are among the highest paid in the world, with a compensation package of $145,565 (most of it tax-free). That is 187 times more than the country’s average income and would be the equivalent of an American congressman making $8.5 million a year. And this is simply what is earned legally.

Read this startling account to the country’s pervasive corruption – and the brave souls who combat it.

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