Why I do not support the Political Responsibilty Concept!

A few days ago I had an argument with some fellows in town on the ongoing debate on whether or not Ministers whose juniors have been implicated in the now cancerous disease of corruption should resign or not. They were breathing fire and splitting the air with such sharp venomous words as they described the Ministers and Permanent Secretaries as being magnificently useless in their work and called for their sacking with no further ado. For me it was the best chance to air what I consider to be so dear to my heart and hence my argument.
As a reader of the Bible I will tell that the only thing that differentiates all Biblical prophets from Jeremiah was his ability to prophesy that in the end of days no son shall carry the sins of their fathers neither will a father be judged by the sins committed by his son. To me this was the foundation stone of what mutated into the concept of human rights today. Jesus Christ who I personally admire warned that in the day judgment every man will stand on his own before God and answer according to their actions.
Let me give you an interesting story of my local sub chief. A few days ago he was caught defecating in his neighbour's maize farm! The owner of the farm raised the alarm and you can imagine how many people rushed to the scene. The local NEMA office then united with some local detractors of the sub chief in demanding that the officer resigns for his unbecoming behaviour. A few days later the story died. But what has been bothering me since then has been this incessant calls for people to resign because their juniors have messed up. In this case the top most or the big fish as they called should resign because of the maize and FPE scandals. This is despite the fact that the so called big fish had nothing to do with the said scandals.
My humble submission is that the concept of Institutional or Political responsibility is a flawed one. If it were to hold water then it would mean George W. Bush was meant to resign after the 11/9/2001 bombing of the NewYork Twin Towers. It would also mean that if the failed bombing of the Boeing 777 from Detroit to Chicago (not sure of the destination) last Christmas had succeeded then Americans would have expected President Obama to resign. It would equally mean that President Kibaki should have resigned after the Mathira massacre on 21/04/2009. Or that President Kibaki whose office is in charge of the Police should resign because some rogue police officers have been collecting 100 shillings from the matatus on the roads. Or that the P.M Raila Odinga should resign now that Caroli Omondi decided to breach the Public Procurement Procedure.
Let me say the following. That each and every individual should be accountable to their actions. We all agree that Corruption is a social crime just as is anti social behaviours such as defecating in the open. How do we expect the President of a country to resign because a police officer was caught soliciting for a 50 shillings bribe? You may think this case is different from the Maize and FPE scandals but to me they are simply the same. Every institution has a structure. And the structures are such that different officers have different roles to play. There are rules that regulate their behaviour as they carry out their duties. The law is equally clear on what should be done in case an officer engages in unbecoming behaviour. In this case their is no law requiring the ministers or their permanent secretaries to resign or be sacked if their officers have been implicated in corruption. It is purely an issue of morality. And if it is morality then the best people to be pressured to resigned are the ones whose names have been mentioned and not their seniors. In this FPE I do not see what wrong Ongeri and Karega have committed. They should not resign. Even the P.M should not resign over the maize scam. If they resign then I need someone to put pressure on Saitoti to resign because of what his sub chief did in the neighbour's farm!