{"id":7589,"date":"2014-02-28T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=7589"},"modified":"2014-02-28T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T14:04:45","slug":"kenya-county-authorities-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/7589","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: County Authorities under Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has revealed that the nation’s 47 counties are under investigation for corruption.<\/p>\n

According to a report by Daily Nation, this revelation was made to the senate on Thursday by the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, Michael Mubea.<\/p>\n

Rumors have surfaced of the commission investigating several government officials, including cabinet secretaries and county governors.<\/p>\n

But the Vice Chairperson of the EACC, Irene Keino, has told reporters that the investigations into the abuse of office by government officials does not include cabinet secretaries.<\/p>\n

There have been several allegations of rife corruption in the Kenyan government, and officials have repeatedly vowed to eliminate this development.<\/p>\n

The Chairman of the commission\u00a0and newly elected President of the East African Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, Mumo Matemo, has revealed to the press that the commission is planning to have branches opened in all counties in the country to monitor corruption effectively.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the EACC, Mr.\u00a0Mubea, says some corrupt senior officials have been identified and would be prosecuted once more evidence is gathered.<\/p>\n

He also noted that the commission will look into allegations of nepotism and other violations of the laws of recruiting and procurement.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mubea told the senate that although a cut in its 2014 budget has had a restrictive effect on the commission’s activities, strategic partnerships with other organizations with similar objectives have supported its operations.<\/p>\n

Photo by Business Daily Africa: Michael Mubea, the\u00a0Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has revealed that the nation’s 47 counties are under investigation for corruption. According to a report by Daily Nation, this revelation was made to the senate on Thursday by the Deputy Chief Executive Officer…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[1668,1667,4966],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}