kenya: Kenyan corruption - The view from the slums

Bureacrats rarely venture into Kibera, a Nairobi slum of narrow, muddy alleys. When they do, David Mutua closes and locks his shoe shop. However, every week he has to visit a wholesaler in the city, and when city officials see him carrying a big bag of shoes, they harangue him until they find some rule he has broken, and then demand bribes to let him off. "They never ask for less than 500 shillings ($6)," he laments, "And sometimes as much as 20,000. We try to avoid them, but sometimes they get you five times in a month. They are bad people."