Detectives from DCI and EACC have in the recent past made making impromptu raids in suspected corrupt leaders homes and offices with the most recent raided leader being Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu.
While some feel that this is unwarranted, City lawyer Donald Kipkorir has supported the raids.
He says that they are the best way to deal with corrupt officials stealing public resources. He further added that developed countries such as the United States of America and Europe use improvised technology to carry out such raids to fight corruption, terrorism among other crimes.
"Fighting Corruption, Terrorism, Money Laundering, Trafficking Of any kind & Organized Crime must involve dramatic raids & arrests ... In America & Europe, even helicopters & special forces are involved. It’s only by the public humiliation of such suspects that the war will be won," reads a tweet by lawyer Kipkorir.
DCI and EACC detectives have employed this technique to arrest top government officials and former leaders such as Former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero, Samburu Governor Moses Lenolkulal, Busia Governor Sospeter Odeke Ojaamong among others.
However, many Kenyans have had a growing feeling that the exercise is simply a public relations exercise because none of these leaders have actually been jailed or made to return public assets.