Vanguard's co-founders include veteran US Democrat party strategist Joe Trippi and the advisory board includes Kenyan anti-graft campaigner John Githongo (AC Vol 58 No 9 Finding Africa on K Street)...

In March John Githongo anti-corruption chief turned whistleblower on the Anglo-Leasing scandal during Mwai Kibaki's presidency and publisher of The Elephant in Nairobi remarked that 'Kenyans are going into an election believing in nothing standing for nothing … no big idea no galvanising issue...

The paradox was that most of the details about the case were uncovered by Kibaki's permanent secretary for governance John Githongo...

John Githongo a former permanent secretary for governance and ethics in Kenya used to say 'anti-corruption politics is good politics'...

The activist and former anti-corruption guru John Githongo links it to the government's need for a policy endorsement from the International Monetary Fund...

' Eyebrows were raised by the potential involvement in advising Odinga of John Githongo the anti-corruption official in the then President Mwai Kibaki's government who turned whistle-blower over the Anglo-Leasing scandal (AC Vol 57 No 23 Empty words on graft)...

' Apart from that presidential broadside the event was a damp squib made noteworthy by the absence of two key invitees: John Githongo the anti-corruption czar in President Mwai Kibaki's government who turned whistle-blower on the Anglo-Leasing scandal in 2004 and economist David Ndii who has persistently attacked the government's handling of funds from the KSh...

As Kenya's former anti-corruption tsar John Githongo has put it: 'you can't digitise integrity'...

It included some of the most-respected intellectuals and activists: Kisumu Senator Professor Peter Anyang' Nyong'o economist and columnist David Ndii University of Nairobi political scientist Adams Oloo lawyer and human rights activist Maina Kiai anti-corruption crusader John Githongo and lawyer and columnist George Kegoro...