Gifts to civil servants could be poisonous

If indeed, as an official in the Office of Ombudsman has revealed, only two laptops and a mobile phone were declared as gifts received or given by senior government officials, something is not right. A Presidential order as well as the Leadership Code of Conducts compel all senior government officials to declare to the Ombudsman – in writing – all gifts received in excess of Frw 100,000 in value. It becomes more worrying when leaders feign ignorance of what they should keep or report, or are indeed in the dark of what the law stipulates and the dangers of not adhering to it.