The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) says it has recovered Sh20 billion of looted taxpayers cash from corrupt cartels in the last five years.
EACC Chairperson Eliud Wabukhala says that the commission successfully recovered Sh207 million between July and December this year, and a further Sh21 million worth of assets.
“Many cases EACC is handling demonstrate that the fight against corruption does not spare anyone by virtue of status or position,” Wabukhala says.
Speaking ahead of the International Anti-Corruption Day on Sunday, the EACC boss says that the agency has uncovered several graft cases this year even as he exuded confidence that more public funds will be recovered from the cases.
“Recent graft cases include National Land Commission, Kenya Power, Migori, Busia and Wajir counties, former Governor Nairobi County, Kenya Pipeline Corporation and National Hospital Insurance Fund,” EACC says.
“In the last five months alone, EACC has completed investigations on 87 corruption cases and forwarded them to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions where 63 of these have been accepted for prosecution,” EACC adds.
In the past, critics have called for disbandment of EACC, arguing that it does little as far as fighting graft is concerned.
However, recent commitment and support of President Kenyatta in the fight against corruption appears to have given EACC the motivation to pursue corruption cases.
If corruption can be routed…
If corruption can be routed out, Kenya can be one of the first developed countries in Africa and our youth’s exodus to Arab countries to live in servitude will come to an end, because they’ll be able to get work in their own country and as a result build their own country.
Keep it up EACC. Nobody has…
Keep it up EACC. Nobody has to be spared as long as they stole public fund.
Thank you Preso Uhuru! I…
Thank you Preso Uhuru! I salute you…this couldn’t be achieved without your effort. However the agency needs more teeth and man power to pursue the real big fish in the deep waters. They have being known for years and now some are deceased. We’re hoping on when to go after they properties in abroad and that have been passed on to the next of kin.
It would be ideal to see the agency multitasking in the recent cases and at the same time relaunching the older cases like Goldenberg and former
Additionally declaring and followup on life auditing starts should be focused from the junior management positions in every Government and Parastatal jobs countrywide. I personally know over 10 young employees in the Coast region that are articulating themselves as Multi-millionaires yet they are ordinary supervisors. They declared themselves as self-made from rugs to Riches. While we surely know it from looting the public funds
What are the Names of these…
What are the Names of these Graft? lords. Name to Shame them.?
Good work in recovering 20…
Good work in recovering 20 billion in 5 years, but in those 5 years how many billions have disappeared? 100 billion? 1 trillion? who knows? By the rate of cases in the last year alone, a lot more may have been looted. To reassure Kenyans, expedite the corruption cases to deter more villains from getting to the taxpayers money. If it now takes minimum of 6 months to conclude one corruption case; within that time 1000 more thieves get access to plunder public resources. Multi-agency, multi-level pronged initiative need be instituted first to secure the public funds, protect the resources and go for the looters. Without securing the public funds first, the cartels will still be able to fund their operations by stealing even more as we track them down.
EACC, DCI, DPP and other agencies need to employ all types of professionals in the intelligence, accountants, bankers, teachers, professors, doctors, engineers, IT experts, scientists, Forensics, artists, analysts, economists, journalists, (planted) business people, etc! not only lawyers and police. This is because of the sophistication level and internationalization of white-collar crimes that are feeding corruption. Kenya being an emerging market, we need to build robust institutions to deter economic crimes.