Internal wrangles indicate EACC walking path to self-destruction

EACC Chairman Mumo Matemu

NAIROBI: Kenya’s top anti-graft agency is once again embroiled in an in-house controversy that threatens to scuttle the little meaningful gains made since its inception. And in its wake, leave, as it has done often and resoundingly, an executive unable to carry through its mandate.

On Tuesday, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission ran into fresh trouble pitting chairman Mumo Matemu, CEO Halakhe Waqo and his deputy Michael Mubea against each other. An exchange of letters between Matemu and Waqo on an alleged irregular suspension of Mubea pointed the country to an apparent rift of relations between the two senior most office holders.