A dossier by the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission on corruption in the National Assembly has revealed more shocking details indicating the extent of the vice within the legislature.
The document has exposed how Members of Parliament lie in mileage claims with a case scenario of an MP, who had traveled to Australia on a weekend but still received thousands of shillings in daily allowances.
The unnamed lawmaker visited Australia on official duty and while overseas filed fake claims of mileage, purporting to have been within the country, in what has been exposed to be a scheme carried out by most MPs .
In the EACC 50-page report, legislators are also accused of intimidating parliamentary officials to pay them inflated allowances even for meetings they failed to attend.
The same report revealed that some former MPs including those who died several years ago were still getting monthly payments.
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According to the dossier, corruption in parliament is a well orchestrated fraud network, in which key departments like procurement and audit either being understaffed or have unqualified individuals used by MPs to win tenders and other businesses.
EACC CEO Halakhe Waqo on Friday, said that they would launch investigations into graft in the National Assembly and make public the names of individuals involved.
The latest details come at a time when the country is submerged into deep waters of corruption, with top government officials being mentioned in multimillion scandals.
