Samburu West Member of Parliament Naisula Lesuuda on Thursday likened President Uhuru Kenyatta's strategies in the fight against corruption to tactics that have been used in war.
In an article published in The Standard, the MP outlined that Uhuru's war against graft has taken the tune of methods prescribed in a fifth century BC book written by war strategist Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
Lesuuda commended the president for the deal struck with his Switzerland's counterpart Alain Berset to repatriate sums of money hidden by corrupt government officials in offshore accounts.
The deal, she explained, falls in line with a war tactic simply described as "begin by seizing something your enemy holds dear".
[caption caption="President Uhuru shares a word with Swiss President Alain Berset during a joint presser issued from State House - Nairobi on July 9, 2018"]
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Ms Lesuuda went on to describe the second tactic which states: "A leader leads by example, not by force".
"President Kenyatta has taken this spirit to the anti-graft fight with the commitment to leadership by example.
"Crucially, Mr Kenyatta stated that he and his Deputy, William Ruto, would be the first to undergo these [lifestyle] audits, which would go a long way toward ensuring their effectiveness. Sun Tzu would approve," Lesuuda's piece read in part
The third tactic, which the MP argued to be least implemented by the president, read: "All warfare is based on deception".
On this, Lesuuda commended the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji for his "indefatigable efforts" and swift arrest of the top dogs implicated in corruption scandals.
"This is why many of us were delighted at the appointment of Noordin Haji to replace Keriako Tobiko as DPP.
"Haji, previously Senior Director of the National Intelligence Service is an outsider to the corruption fight, and therefore, unpredictable," she explained.
[caption caption="Samburu West MP Naisula Lesuuda during a past joint presser with NACADA"]
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