A Nakuru-based political activist has accused the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission of covering up and protecting corrupt county government officials instead of prosecuting them.
Hezron Manyara accused EACC of being used to protect senior officials within the county government who have been implicated in corruption.
Speaking on Monday in Nakuru town, Manyara said the the EACC should stop protecting corrupt county government officials in the name of doing investigations.
He cited the latest case in which the EACC has launched investigations into the illegal hiring of 180 county staff,something he says was already done by the county assembly special committee.
"We wonder why the EACC has decided to take up this matter in the name of investigating when already the county assembly investigated and found the county secretary and other officials culpable,"said Manyara.
"We cannot trust EACC officials in Nakuru to investigate the county secretary and other officials who were implicated when they have not told us what happened to the investigations they were carrying about the graft allegations against finance CeC Anne Njenga,"he said.
He called on EACC headquarters to send officers from Nairobi to investigate the issue.
However, in a quick rejoinder EACC Gilbert Lukhoba denied the claims.
"That cannot be true and as EACC we are never influenced by anyone and our business is not to protect people but we work as per what the law tells us,"said Lukhoba.
EACC has written to the county speaker seeking to be supplied with a report which was adopted by the assembly and implicated county secretary Joseph Motari and chief officer public service management Philip Sigei over the illegal hiring of over 180 county staff.