Wiper Patriotic Front Leader Kalonzo Musyoka has weighed in on the ongoing debate about corruption in the country, challenging youth to reject attempts to normalise the vice.

Speaking to a delegation of young leaders on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, during the Inter-party Cooperation Forum, Kalonzo also challenged that the country needs stronger men and women to help fight the war against the fight.

He underscored the need for complementing youthful vigour and energy with wisdom to be able to get the country back on track and hand it over to the next generation.

“You must resolve to remain vigilant and to be able to say no to corruption. Somebody told us that it has hit the glass ceiling, and it is now a way of life in Kenya. We must refuse that it cannot be.”

“There are things that must happen. If we say no to corruption, we will be able to give Kenyans free education and achieve capitation to schools,” he stated.

Kalonzo, reacting to President Ruto’s anti-graft stance and subsequent criticism of lawmakers over alleged complicity in bribery, challenged Members of the National Assembly to clear their names.

His sentiment comes barely hours after Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei claimed that the endemic problem of corruption is part of the country’s culture and cannot be fixed in three years.

Speaking during a live interview on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, the senator decried that vice is so much ingrained in the country through different names like “lobbying” and “10 percent.”

He jokingly stated that the country should even consider taking the proceeds of graft.

“The fight against corruption cannot be fixed in three years. This is a culture that has lived with us for sixty years. Corruption is everywhere; I even think as a country we should consider taxing its proceeds,” he stated.

The senator, who is tasked with ensuring accountability and transparency through his oversight role, further faulted the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), which he termed a major bottleneck in the fight against the vice.