...briefing April 2004. As useful as this euphemism may have been for many years to avoid the word "corruption", it does represent how corruption can turn a society upside down.

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Traditionally, inviting someone for tea used to be a symbol of hospitality, one of the values of which Kenyans are proudest. Ambassador Bahemuka and her Government want to revive this traditional notion of hospitality that is connected to tea, but, more important, they want to revitalize their country: "Corruption had reached endemic proportions in our society. It had ruined our schools and hospitals. It had destroyed our agriculture and industries. It ate up our roads and jobs. It robbed, looted and plundered our resources. It killed our children. It destroyed our society." Kenya's current Government is determined to alleviate these problems by fighting corruption, identified as the principal structural bottleneck to all its development efforts and the fundamental cause of the high levels of poverty, unemployment and social backwardness.

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