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Transparency International’s 2014 brief on Kenya across all six views: 91 proposed statements and 73 proposed connections, each with a page reference. No endorsement, trial or outcome is recorded.

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  AI reconstruction from the Anti-Corruption Helpdesk brief of 15 October 2014.

  Public money is used openly and abuse of office is punished.Anti-corruption laws are enforced, not just passed.Watchdogs and courts can act independently.Citizens can follow and audit public money.Elections and party money are clean.Police serve rather than extort.Press and civil society can expose corruption.Corruption cases reliably reach prosecution.Courts can try corruption cases efficiently.Audits cover all spending and lead to action.People can get public information.Asset declarations are checked; convicts are kept out.Whistle-blowers are protected in practice.Campaign money is limited and traceable.Police oversight acts on complaints.Kenya ranks near the bottom on corruption indices.An anti-corruption government soon faced its own scandals.Most people paid a bribe for a public service.Police are the most bribed institution.Firms pay for contracts and permits.School funds were lost and donors pulled out.KSh 34bn was spent without records.Senior officials are rarely convicted.Trust in the fight fell from 70% to 34%.Elections are marred by fraud and vote-buying.Laws are diluted or not implemented.Political will is lacking.The commission can't prosecute.The commission was slow to start and contested.Courts are overloaded and themselves corrupt.Accused officials stay in or return to office.Asset declarations go unchecked.Parties run on ethnic patronage.Party and campaign money is opaque.Procurement favours the well-connected.Budget oversight is thin.Police oversight and reform lag.Free primary education survives the loss.Keep donor support.Make the culprits, not taxpayers, pay.Refund donors from the treasury now.Repay from money recovered from culprits.Stolen assets return and corruption stops paying.Recover assets quickly.Show that theft is punished.Settle out of court.Pursue cases to judgment.Give the commission power to prosecute.Resource the courts for corruption cases.Restore vetting and check asset declarations.Protect whistle-blowers in law.Give the right to information a law.Limit and verify campaign money.Put the public finance law fully into effect.Audit all funds and report to the public.Finish police reform and fund its oversight.Recover assets without buying pardons.Refund now, and recover from the culprits.Keep the media free of government control.Senior officials' cases reach judgment.Abusing office carries a real cost.People can see where money goes.Misuse is caught early.Less dirty money in campaigns.Fewer police bribes.Trust in the fight recovers.Money reaches the services it is for.Settlements work as pardons.Taxpayers pay for stolen money.Media control silences reporting.Kenya's public budget hearings were exemplary.Reforms are passed intact and put into effect.Decision makers resist and ignore critics.Bills are weakened before they pass.Reform bodies lack money and staff.Bodies dispute their mandates.Civil society has less influence.A broad coalition keeps up pressure.Bills are tracked so weakening is seen.Committed MPs carry the bills.Reform bodies have secure budgets.Each body's mandate is settled.A reform bill is before parliament.Publish each draft and flag weakening changes.Weakening changes are public before the vote.Some MPs back the bill.Brief MPs and the public on flagged changes.The bill passes with fewer weakening changes.The bill has become law.A year on, report what has been put into effect.Implementation gaps are on public record.and 73 connections