Hard questions as EACC seeks more funding from Treasury

A new multi-billion shilling office building in upmarket Nairobi, three times the annual budget, 500 new detectives, plus a cache of state-of-the-art surveillance equipment top the list of new demands the anti-corruption agency wants in the hunt for stolen public funds.

In a dossier filed with a parliamentary committee, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) says it needs the resources to trace and recover at least Sh50 billion of stolen public property, and thwart the theft of another Sh50 billion from the public coffers – within a year. But the commission will have to prove it’s worth the money, as numerous questions have been raised on it’s independence and performance.