The government has requested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help it make a corruption and governance diagnosis to ensure that the government can weed out graft that keeps coming up every time and continues to hurt Kenyans’ economy and livelihoods.

Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi noted that the diagnosis will be in every ministry, and all government institutions as President William Ruto’s government takes the fight against corruption a notch higher. Speaking during the opening of Kenya Revenue Authority Summit 2024, at a Nairobi hotel, Mudavadi urged the government officers to take the process seriously and insisted that those who will not be part of it then the diagnostic exercise will take up with them. “We need to take the fight on corruption a notch higher and cast away the spirit of corruption. The war on corruption has taken a long time. We must ask ourselves where corruption is domiciled so that we can tackle it head-on,” said Mudavadi.

The Prime Cabinet Secretary urged the KRA management to widen the tax bracket to increase their collections process to avoid having a small group of Kenyans overtaxed to shoulder the country’s burden.

“You need to bring more people into the tax bracket, targeting the same people for revenues will lead to over-taxation,” said Mudavadi. Noting that this year’s Africa Customs and Trade Conference was on ‘Trade Facilitation and Domestic Resource Mobilization in the Digital Age’, he said the Summit gave the tax collectors an opportunity for an engagement on constructive dialogue that will lead to administrative procedures, and policy reforms that generate additional revenue .