Kacc changes tack in graft fight

The Kenya Anti Corruption Commission is reaching out to Kenyans living outside Nairobi to sensitise them on the effects of corruption on the economy.

To fast track the process, Kacc is setting up regional offices to address issues related to graft at the grassroots.

"We are moving out of Integrity Centre (Commission’s headquarters in Nairobi) to set up regional and county offices across the country.

"We want everybody to know the evils of graft and to help us fight it,” the Preventive Services assistant director Prof Onsongo said Wednesday in Migori Town during a public education session.

Prof Onsongo asked Kenyans to change their attitude towards eradicating the vice saying the fight was not only a mandate of elected  leaders but everybody.

"And be ready to demand for services from public offices without parting with a bribe because it is your right. Public servants are paid to serve you free of charge,” she said.

The Kacc Advisory Board chairman Okongo O’mogeni  said they were steeping up public sensitisation beyond the major towns  to enable tax payers know their roles in the fight against graft.

Migori DC Julius Mutula  described corruption  as “cancer that was threatening our very existence as a country” and appealed  to everybody to fight for its elimination in both the public and private sectors.