Joe Public has every right to know what goes on in the corridors of power

I happened to overhear an interesting conversation last week. Two people were discussing this newspaper’s decision to publish some of the names on the Ombudsman’s list of senior officials who didn’t comply with this country’s Leadership Code. This Code makes it obligatory for those in positions of leadership, in the public sector, to declare their wealth. Obviously this is easier said than done because, if reports are to be believed, after months of waiting, Mzee Tito Rutaremara was forced to forward the names of the wayward leaders to the Office of the Prime Minister, Bernard Makuza.