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Never had a parliamentary watchdog committee been disbanded, but when it happened in Kenya in 2016, it was for corruption - and Ababu Namwamba was at the centre of it.
A major corruption scandal, which sucked in all the members of the Public Accounts Committee, forced the Speaker of the National Assembly to order that parliament's privileges committee investigates claims that Mr Namwamba's committee had been extorting and blackmailing public officials they were meant to oversee.
Mr Namwamba, in his defence, said that the other committee members were placing the blame on him for refusing to aid their schemes.
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