Alma, @2012, if most Kenyans are socialized in the same way in terms of cultural values, how is it possible that when it comes to voting then the majority will vote for a thief?

The only reason is that that is the best strategy. Mtu wetu is the dominant strategy because the way our political system is designed requires such thinking!

Kenya was created with an emphasis on a certain region. Therefore politics is bound to be regional. Because of how the effects of land abrogation for example would be felt.

Each high ranking thief, is a beloved Robin Hood in their back yards.

The reason there's this much corruption in Kenya is because we celebrate thieves. Even churches invite these thieves as guests of honour to build God's houses with blood money.
You tell me how a young lad in the village will not aspire to be a thief when he sees all the respect and honour being bestored on these crooks in churches, schools and home where he/she is the apple of the parents' eye for building them a stone house unlike the neighbor's useless son who lives in a mabati house on their compound and a mere deacon in the village church. We're just a sick pretentious society.