Like I said here before, the pattern and rhythm must be maintained. Here is how:
1. Moi appoints a know drug dealer to head KACA - Predictable outcome
2. Ringera appointed - a well known corrupt judge. Another judghe declares his body illegal
3. Ringera comes back - He resumes taking protection cash from the corrupt. Builds one of the biggest houses in Kenya (Ongata Rongai). He irks some MPs and powerful people, he is sent home. Cases he had started die as the new body is not recognized as having inherited the cases
4. P.L.O Lumumba appointed after cutting a deal negotiated by Moi. Everyone knows it is a matter of when not if he will go. He irritates Mbarire, Ngilu and later Orengo. Orengo and the House business committee speed up the formation of a new body under the new katiba. They add an anti-Lumumba clause that he reapply for the job. He goes home rather than try the impossible
5. New body. A man with heavy baggage is appointed. Challenged in the High court successfully (Mumbi Ngugi). Court of appeal in its usual turf wars reinstates him. Matter goes to Supreme Court where media gives a blackout - thanks to Shollei whose wife is in trouble
Its time for a change of guard ...again
It can be bewildering when one reads of Matemu sending someone home over integrity issues. EACC is a bad joke.
It looks like they can now monitor progress of files of cases reported to them. One can be forgiven for wondering out loud, what the hell they have they been doing all these years.
At the weekend, EACC vice Chair Irene Keino said the commission had introduced a system of monitoring progress of files whose cases have been reported to them.