Failure to take oath haunts anti-graft body official

Welcome, (we pray that Parliament will give you the nod) to the most loved and loathed office, Mr Mumo Matemu. This is everyone’s dream job because those who get it, it is rumoured, end up earning even more than the President. But that’s besides the point. What PointBlank is waiting for now, is your inaugural speech. In their speeches, those who came and went before you, usually dwelt on fish and dragons.

Lawyer Erick Mogeni, the chairman of the Kenya Anti-Corruption (KACC) Advisory board is leading the pack of candidates nominated for appointment as the chairman of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).

KACC director PLO Lumumba is a man under siege. For some reason, Kenyans are not raising any eyebrows regarding the manner the ‘hunter’ is being ‘hunted’.

Parliament has had its way. The President has assented to the relevant Bill, and Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission Director PLO Lumumba and his top directors have vacated office.

Cabinet sub-committee on implementation of the Constitution crafted clauses that compromise the war on corruption, The Standard can report.

A group of ODM MPs are up in arms over tough rules that have been set by the panel appointed to pick new commissioners for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.

Ruling parties in Africa doubling in business foster official corruption, an Africa governance conference was told. Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) director Patrick Lumumba said "there is something wrong" with parties in Government doing business because besides graft flourishing, they also unfairly elbow out private enterprises.

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Civil Society organizations want President Kibaki to drop Education Minister Sam Ongeri from the cabinet following the Sh4.6 billion free education funds scam.

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The Government is pushing to recover Sh3.8 billion irregularly paid to businessman Deepak Kamani in one of 16 Anglo Leasing projects in which the country lost over Sh50 billion.