(The corrupt strike back. From yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor:
Masked, armed police Thursday stormed the offices of a leading Kenyan media company in a raid seen as punishment for reports criticizing the government’s dismal record on corruption. Dozens of officers carrying AK-47 assault rifles ransacked the Nairobi editorial headquarters of Kenya Television Network (KTN) and the downtown printing press of The Standard, Kenya’s oldest newspaper…. Mr. Kibaki’s administration has been under fire since an explosive report written by the country’s former anticorruption chief John Githongo, who fled to Britain afraid for his life a year ago, was leaked to national and international media in January. In the report, Mr. Githongo claims several serving and former ministers in Kibaki’s Cabinet were extensively involved in a series of shady deals designed to loot $262 million of state funds, in a country where more than half the 31 million population lives on less than $2 a day.)
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