Nairobi, Feb. 5 -- In last week's column titled Cyclical behaviour that kills hope, I argued that the people we have mandated to manage our affairs keep repeating behaviour that underpins our failing development project.

One of such behaviour, and the most crippling, is theft of public resources. Despite the devastating effect of this behaviour, we keep repeating it. In that column, I wrote, "Since Independence in Kenya and elsewhere, we keep waking up to headlines of massive theft or misuse of public resources."

The Daily Nation of January 26 carried a report with the following headline: "How newly elected governors went on a spending spree after 2022 polls."

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