SIX months after ending a three-year funding freeze to Kenya, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it had put the brakes on a new programme because of “serious setbacks” in the fight against corruption. “It’s not a suspension, it’s more or less a delay in disbursement because of setbacks in the critical aspects of efforts related to governance,” IMF’s resident representative to Kenya, Samuel Itam, said. Chief among the IMF’s latest concerns is the December decision by the Kenyan constitutional court to remove all investigative and prosecutorial powers from the Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority on the grounds that the such powers infringed on those of the judiciary and the police.