By JAINDI KISEROMore by this AuthorWe have yet again been taken through a gripping lesson on the growing power and influence of well-connected Chinese contractors in Kenya. The Thwake Dam story represents one of the rare cases where the Ethics and Anti-Corruption is called in to investigate an on-going procurement. How can a civil servant risk his neck so recklessly on such a hotly contested issues with high political stakes? All over sub-Saharan Africa, corrupt elites and crafty Chinese contractors are forming political alliances meant to circumvent and defeat rules governing transparent tendering. As competition for contracts intensify, they will want group together and raise money as they scheme to fund and push their allies into high political office.

Source: Daily Nation April 18, 2017 18:11 UTC