Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah is not satisfied with what the World Bank chose to look at. While the lender's latest assessment of corruption in Kenya zeroed in on procurement irregularities, Omtatah says that framing misses the bigger picture entirely.
The senator is pointing to what he calls a deeper, more troubling problem: the way the Kenyan government borrows money and how public funds are managed once they arrive. In his view, focusing on procurement alone allows more fundamental issues to go unexamined and unchallenged.
Omtatah's critique raises a question that is hard to ignore. If a lender as influential as the World Bank is shaping the conversation around corruption in Kenya, what gets left out of that conversation matters just as much as what gets included.
Originally published by AllAfrica.