In Kenya public office is often seen as a route to personal enrichment, as Obama noted while standing alongside President Uhuru Kenyatta at a news conference in Nairobi on Saturday.
Only 1% of Kenyan government spending can be properly accounted for, according to a report by the country's auditor-general released only a few days after US President Barack Obama warned that corruption was holding the country back.
Auditor-General Edward Ouko's annual report, presented to parliament on Tuesday, said that only 1.2% of Kenya's 1-trillion shilling (R121-billion) budget for 2013-2014 "was incurred lawfully and in an effective way".
The 361-page report is a litany of mismanagement, incompetence, wastage, misspending and possibly corruption on a huge scale.
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