ONGERI MUST KNOW THAT ABSURD ISSUANCE OF EDUCATION FUNDS IS CORRUPTION.

Dear Sir/Madam, It seems to me that honorable Ongeri is illiberal or downright condescending or that perhaps he is both. That is why he still finds it difficult to clearly comprehend the enormity of his acts of commission and omission. Speaking during a political rally in Kisii, Ongeri roused the crowd with a high dose of ethnic populism and in the process brazenly admitted that he had engaged in absurd issuance of education funds in his constituency. Interestingly, the jolly old professor is still somewhat puzzled that the public thinks of him as being corrupt! For starters, Ongeri must acquaint himself with the definition of the term corruption. I guess I have to be sufficiently philanthropic as to provide one for his sake. According to the World Bank, corruption is “the abuse of power for personal gain or for the benefit of a group to which one owes allegiance. It is motivated by greed and by the desire to retain or increase one`s power.” From the foregoing, I firmly believe that Ongeri is now in a vantage point to clearly understand the folly of his actions and that he will therefore not continue misread the signs on the wall. I expect him to swallow the last shred of his pride and to honorably tender his resignation with immediate effect. In the event that he elects to continue ignoring the mounting pressure from the public, the president and the Prime Minister must sack him in the best interest of the public. I must also hasten to tell him that by his very own admission, his public ratings have taken a severe hit so much so that even his own constituents will find it difficult to spare him the agony of going down the path of political incineration. It should pain his conscience that he has incessantly lied to the public and to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education. We now know that there is a great mountain between what his heart knows and what his tongue has been saying. What we still do not know is perhaps the avalanche of truth that he is still withholding from the public domain. It is does not cease to amaze the public that there are still some Cabinet Ministers who continue to think that dishonesty serves a higher truth. It irritates the intelligence of many that such impropriety has to come from a man who claims to be pious. It is even worse when the same person is also a holder of the title “professor.” Ongeri must know that the unrelenting brushfire that has so far taken toll on Permanent Secretaries and other top civil servants in the Ministries of Education, Agriculture and Special Programmes has not subsided. He must know that the menacing flames are still soaring high. TOME FRANCIS, BUMULA. http://twitter.com/tomefrancis