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Kenya's
top anti-corruption officials are suspended following a bitter stand-off with
parliament ©Simon Maina (AFP)
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Kenya's
top anti-corruption officials were suspended Thursday following a bitter
stand-off with parliament and after they alleged widespread graft in the east
African nation.
President
Uhuru Kenyatta removed the chairman and deputy chairwoman of Kenya's Ethics and
Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) after MPs voted to sanction the pair,
accusing them of incompetence and abuse of office.
Local media in Kenya report:
The
crisis in the fight against graft comes less than a month after dozens of top
Kenyan politicians and civil servants were named in an EACC report that gave a
damning indictment of the scale of corruption in the country.
A
total of 175 people were named in the EACC report, including five cabinet
ministers, 13 governors and a host of civil servants, MPs and members of the
judiciary.
President
Kenyatta had also ordered those named in the report to step aside while they
are under investigation.
Presidential
spokesman Manoah Esipisu said that even though the EACC bosses had now also
been suspended, he insisted that this "in no way hinders the work" of
the anti-corruption body.
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