Posted Sunday, June 5 2011 at 21:20
A lobby group has called for the enactment of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Bill that outlaws public officers from operating personal businesses.
It also wants the declaration of wealth by the said officers made public and failure to do so criminalised.
At a news conference in Nairobi on Sunday, officials from the National Civil Society Congress said it was this avenue that had spurred corruption.
“Civil servants these days even operate companies that do businesses with the ministries they work for…this is wrong and we want this stopped as it opens ways for corruption,” the lobby group’s president, Mr Morris Odhiambo, said.
The official expressed disappointment that despite Kenyans calling for the prosecution of those who acquire wealth illegally, leaders had refused to listen.
“Foreign countries seem to care more about the corrupt among us than we do ourselves, yet corruption is killing this country inch by inch,” he added.
‘We are, therefore, calling for the immediate investigation of all accounts held by Kenyans in foreign countries and disclosure of all such accounts,” Mr Odhiambo said.
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