EACC will take 50 years to clear cases backlog

The extent to which the independence and capacity of Kenya’s anti-graft agency to do its job has been eroded is now clear after it emerged that it may take it nearly 50 years to clear the backlog of cases in its docket at its current pace.

Without the commissioners who provided a wall between it and the political establishment, the agency has been left exposed to the Executive arm of government and vulnerable to attacks by Parliament and lawsuits.