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Board nominates PLO Lumumba to head KACC
The Kenya Anti Corruption Commission Advisory Board chairman Okong'o Omogeni during a press conference on November 26, 2009 where he announced that the Board had nominated PLO Lumumba as the director of the anti graft body. Photo/JAMES NJUGUNA
Posted Thursday, November 26 2009 at 10:25
In Summary
Names will be forwarded to Parliament for debate before they are referred to President Kibaki for appointment.
Dr Lumunba beat a field of 197 applicants.
The Board considered his "unrivalled experience in court procedures and rules of evidence, both of which are critical in getting convictions in the many corruption cases in our courts."
In settling for the prominent lawyer, the Board was equally persuaded "by the urgent need of having a senior and experienced lawyer to lead our civil litigation team of lawyers in pursuing through civil suits the recovery of corruptly acquired assets.."
Prof Jane Onsongo is an associate professor of education and deputy director of research at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa.
She holds a PhD in higher and further education from University College London and "will bring a vast experience in education and research which is critical in designing policies and actions to change public perception about the vice of corruption," said the Board.
Mr Ringera resigned as the KACC director after weeks of public pressure for him to step down. Parliament had declared his re-appointment, for a further five-year term by President Kibaki, as illegal.
Two other assistant directors, also reappointed by President Kibaki, resigned after the House nullified their appointments. They were Dr Smokin Wanjala and Fatuma Sichale.
Parliament said, at the time, that the unilateral decision by President Kibaki to bypass two House committees- Delegated Legislation and Legal Affairs and Administration of Justice to make the reappointments went against the law.
A motion to nullify a gazette notice containing the appointments was overwhelmingly passed in Parliament.
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Another Obama? PLO go...I don't expect much from you should there be not reforms. You'll need prosecutorial powers! Else you will b a student of Amos Wako...You talk, yes, but we need actions that'll positively transform our mother country.
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Dr. Lumumba is the right candidate for the directorship of KACC. Let the board as well as parliament give him the legal and moral backing if we want him to succeed. Kudos Lumumba.
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If KACC does not have the power to prosecute, then this is just a waste of time. Wako will, as usual, throw out the cases. Good luck guys!
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