Corruption does not only mean the illegal looting of public funds. It can also include exorbitant salaries paid to the political leadership and the civil service, argues Dagi Kimani from The East African in an article for World Press Review. "As Kenyans this year launch a concerted war against corruption, which in governance is taken basically to mean the privatisation of public funds through illegal means, they will also have to fight extremely hard to stop the looting of public coffers in legal ways. This must be so because, in what looks like a conspiracy by the top echelons of the political leadership and the civil service, the salaries of top public servants are being pushed to obscene levels, even as lower cadres are perennially told that the exchequer does not have enough tax shillings to throw them a lifeline of single-digit percentage wage increase," the article says.