Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

The statements, events and reactions of the past couple of weeks surrounding the perennially vexed subject of corruption makes me wonder. Are we on the cusp of the challenge to and confrontation against corruption?
Certainly we have come a long way In identifying and isolating it. Let me give a small example. Twenty one years ago, I wrote a piece for the Sunday Nation which was entitled "Why Kenya's looting brigade now has its eyes on public land"
The main thrust of the article was that after the monetary excesses of 1992 and 1993, there was a growing penchant for Kenya's looting brigade to next move their focus and activities to public land. The process was as simple and as was crude. A handful of politically connected private individuals or entities would get allocated a prime piece of public land for a nominal sum. A title would be processed and then it would be sold, in part or whole, at a much higher price to a public institution that had the cash resources. It became known as "land grabbing" and most Kenyans can give countless examples of where this has taken place. It was double plunder because not only was the land grabbed; it was often paid out of public resources or savings that were meant for other things.
Today, we talk about this activity and make reference to it with alacrity and in most cases without fear. Not so in 1994.When I first wrote the piece and offered it to the Sunday Nation, it passed the relevant tests of being well researched and factually correct, but publishing it was another matter. There was a culture of fear that shrouded the whole country and putting one's head above the parapet was regarded as dangerous and reckless. The piece was pushed around a couple of editorial desks and the decision to publish was deferred for a while I recall I was requested to "soften" the piece. When it did eventually get printed, I was very much aware that I might get a backlash and braced myself accordingly. Today, there is much less remaining of that culture of fear but as we have been reminded several times recently, corruption at many levels continues unabated. The Dossier compiled by the Ethics and Anti-corruption Authority (EACC) is evidence enough. The stance made by the president on Thursday is also encouraging.
So where to now? There is no doubt that the public outrage the majority of the population, who are mere victims, as opposed to beneficiaries, is gathering the momentum of landslide proportions. We should not underestimate that growing anger. This is both unsurprising and gratifying. For most of us, corruption just makes our lives much tougher, more fatiguing and even expensive.
The big question is: how seriously will those who have been named take it? The norm in many countries which aspire to high integrity standards is that when a person is named by such a body as the EACC, then that person should step aside. The onus is on the relevant bodies to complete investigations and prosecute as and when necessary and for the person named to defend him or herself.

That is where we should be heading. The president should make it clear that all the people named in the scandal should step aside. If we move down that road, then we are indeed heading in the right direction. If we do not then this will just be another bout of public gesturing of the bread and circuses variety.
Lastly, the EACC and in turn the Director of Public Prosecution, need to do some serious ground work to fully support and, where applicable, prosecute what is being alleged. We are watching and in a number of cases, rather sceptically.

a) According to the passage, what statements shows that corruption has taken a long time to be addressed?

b) From the writer's perspective, what is land grabbing?

c) Why is it easier today to talk about land grabbing with alacrity than before?

d) Why does the writer refer to land grabbing as 'double plunder'?

e) How does corruption affect the wider society?

f) What steps should be taken when suspects involved in corruption step aside? Give your answer in note form

g) We should not underestimate that growing anger. (Rewrite in the passive)

h) In which way can the EACC help in the fight against corruption?

i) What is the meaning of the following words as used in the passage?

i) Thrust

ii) Deferred

iii) Dossier

a) In paragraph one, the writer says '…...surrounds perennially vexed subject of corruption' / Then adds in paragraph two that “ We have come a long way in identifying and isolating it (corruption)

b) It is a process whereby politically connected people get allocated a prime piece of land and after processing a title, they sell it in part or whole at a much higher price to a public institution that has cash resources

c) In the past 1994, there was a culture of fear that shrouded the whole country and putting one’s head above the parapet was regarded as dangerous and reckless.

d) It is referred to as double plunder because the land was first grabbed and then often paid out of public resources or savings that were meant for other things.

e) Corruption just makes our lives much tougher, more fatiguing and even expensive.

f) Must be notes. Presented in bullets - dashes, arrows, numbered etc
- Relevant bodies to complete investigations
- Prosecute as and when necessary
- The persons named to defend themselves
g) That growing anger should not be underestimated (by us)

h) i) Point/idea/substance/argument….

ii) Delayed/held up/postponed/stalled/put off till a later time

iii) Information/record/report/profile.

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marto answered the question on June 12, 2019 at 11:47

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• Fill in the blank spaces, with the most appropriate word. (Solved)
  

  Fill in the blank spaces, with the most appropriate word.
  
  Sister Stefani (1) _______________ sent to serve with other nuns at Gikondi Parish as a nurse. She (2)
  ______________herself to caring for the sick. It is said by (3) ___________ of her contemporaries that many
  were the (4) _____________ that she spent entire days (5) ________________ eating so as to serve her many
  patients. Because of this loving service (6) ____________ dedication, the people of that (7) _____________
  nicknamed her as 'Nyaatha' which means 'a merciful person.'
  According to the document that missionaries kept in Gikondi Parish, there was an (8) ______________ of
  plague and Sister Stefani (9) ________________the disease as she was treating one of her patients. Other nuns
  had requested her not to attend to the patient to avoid being (10) ______________.

  Date posted: June 7, 2019 .    Answers (1)

• Using the words in brackets, complete the following sentences with the most appropriate phrasal verb. (Solved)
  

  Using the words in brackets, complete the following sentences with the most appropriate phrasal verb.
  
  (i) I was _______by his childish behaviour during the academic parade. (take).
  
  (ii) The new students could not ____________ their way to the dormitory. (make)

  Date posted: June 7, 2019 .    Answers (1)