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Graft agency goes after small fish as looters roam

EACC chairman Eliud Wabukala addressing the press at Integrity Centre, Wabukala stated that graft probe on outgoing governors will continue.16/8/2017 [Photo/BEVERLYNE MUSILI]

The anti-corruption watchdog is spending taxpayer’s money investigating petty and trivial cases as it glides past big scandals that have cost the country billions of shillings.

In its latest report, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) lists 52 cases it investigated between July and September 2017, none of which were tabled in Parliament in the explosive ‘list of shame’ that cost top government officials their jobs.

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