Ethics and Anti-Corruption (EACC) chairman Eliud Wabukala is in the spotlight as the country’s grapples with alleged massive corruption expose.
Wabukala is being watched as his agency is responsible for investigating and forwarding corruption files to the Director of Public Prosecutions for action.
The EACC has been under criticism for allegedly not doing enough to tame corruption.
The Wabukala led commission has often been accused of targeting ‘small fish’ and allowing the ‘big fish’ to swim away.
Before taking over EACC job in 2016, Wabukala was the Anglican Church of Kenya Arch Bishop.
Here are interesting facts you didn’t know about Wabukala.
1. Early life
Wabukala was born in 1951 in Bungoma District.
The former Arch-Bishop was raised in an Anglican family.
As a child, he used to walk over 10 Km daily to attend school.
2. Schooling
Wabukala attended Butonge Primary school and later Kolanya High School in Bungoma and completed the studies in 1969.
The former Bishop worked as an untrained teacher at Butonge primary school to help educate his two sisters and five brothers.
3. Teaching profession
In 1972, Wabukala enrolled at the Kaimoi Teachers Training College to study teaching.
He graduated as a trained teacher in 1974 and was posted to teach in several schools in the now Bungoma county.
4. Religious career
In 1985, Wabukala quit the teaching profession and enrolled for Theology at St Paul’s Theological College in Limuru.
Upon finishing the theology studies in 1988, he went back to teaching before receiving a scholarship from the Anglican Church of Canada to study at the Wycliffe College at Toronto School of Theology.
In 1990, Wabukala graduated with a Ph.D. in Theology and upon returning to the country he was recruited as a lecturer at St Paul’s Theological College in Limuru.
Wabukala later became Theology Dean at the Limuru Theological College.
5. Bishop
On 13, October 1996, Wabukala was elected the first Bishop of Bungoma.
He served in the position for 12 years.
6.Arch-Bishop
On 24 April 2009, Wabukala was elected as the Anglican Arch Bishop of Kenya, succeeding Benjamin Nzimbi.
He retired as Anglican Arch-Bishop in 2016 before being appointed as EACC chairman.
7.NCCK Chairman
Wabukala served the National vice chairman of the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) between 2004 and 2009.
8. Anti-corruption steering committee chair
Before his appointment as the EACC chairman, Wabukala also served as the chairperson of the National Anti-Corruption Campaign Steering Committee (NACCSC).
9. Family
Wabukala is married and blessed with five children.
As the wheels of justice on corruption rolls, Wabukala will be the man in the spotlight as his agency is directly mandated to investigate corruption and other economic crimes.
The former Bishop says that the fight against graft is on course and wants each and every Kenyan to play his or her role.
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