The Kacheliba Member of Parliament Totus Lotee has blamed the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) for the inaction against the nation's enduring corruption.
As far as Lotee is concerned, the two institutions' indifference to those found guilty of embezzling public funds has encouraged more public officers to persist in their vices.
He said that the two prosecuting agencies had never commented on the issue, despite the admirable efforts made by the offices of the Controller of Budget and the Auditor General to highlight the pervasive threat of budgeted corruption.
"I want to say that they are sleeping because even when Parliament has found someone to be culpable and action is supposed to be taken there is nothing that is done by these people," he said during a discussion with Citizen TV on Tuesday.
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"Either the DPP will blame EACC or blame something that is not adding up for prosecution to take place."
The lawmaker said that the two institutions needed to work together more seriously and, for once, capture those who were found guilty.
"From the time we enacted our constitution, this country has not seen a major arrest on anybody who has played with our budgets."
The 'Arror and Kimwarer Dam Scandal' is a massive graft case, and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has recently come under fire for allegedly being politically pressured to handle it poorly.
This came after the nation lost Ksh.63 billion in fraud charges against former Treasury Cabinet Secretary (CS) Henry Rotich and eight other suspects in the scandal.
The DPP applied to withdraw an ongoing Ksh. 42.7 billion corruption cases at the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court in Nairobi, sparking a legal dispute between the ODPP and the EACC on February 22, 2024.
A former managing director of the Geothermal Development Corporation (GDC) and seven other publicly traded company employees who generate electricity are the targets of a corruption case.
The Milimani Anti-Corruption Court rejected the DPP's attempt precisely one week before to drop the corruption charges against former Kenya Pipeline Managing Director (MD) Charles Kiprotich Tanui and his co-accused.
Judge Justice Prof. Nixon Sifuna of the High Court rendered a precedent-setting decision in late January regarding what he called "a laundry manner of prosecution practice taking route in Kenya"—a reference to the DPP's ongoing practice of withdrawing cases.
The court ruled that "the prosecution cannot, in the course of the trial, suddenly make a 360 degrees turn and declare the accused innocent…"
