Graft team given nine days on Anglo-Leasing
What you need to know:
- Ethics team chairman Mumo Matemu, commissioner Jane Onsongo and Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko attended the meeting.
- The anti-corruption commission is understood to have failed to find a connection between the Anglo Leasing-type companies that defrauded the government and their directors.
A parliamentary committee has given the anti-corruption commission and the prosecutor nine days to either take suspects in the Anglo-Leasing cases to court or close the files.
The Justice and Legal Affairs Committee Thursday decided to put the deadline on the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and the Director of Public Prosecutions to put the protracted matter to the rest.
“We have asked them to, by the end of this month, either take the people to court or close the file,” said the Justice and Legal Affairs committee chairman, Mr Samuel Chepkong’a after a closed-door meeting in Parliament.
Ethics team chairman Mumo Matemu, commissioner Jane Onsongo and Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko attended the meeting.
Mr Chepkong’a said his team had decided that it would take “remedial action” if the deadlines are not met.
He said if team was unable to conclude the investigation and take the files to Mr Tobiko, they would be considered to have been incompetent, said Mr Chepkong’a.
DEFRAUDED GOVERNMENT
The anti-corruption commission is understood to have failed to find a connection between the Anglo Leasing-type companies that defrauded the government and their directors.
But its officers were reported to have come back from Switzerland last weekend with information that should make it possible to make progress in the investigation.
Some members of the committee have suggested removing the commissioners because of the delays and allegations that the anti-corruption commission has blocked investigations into improprieties within it.
