Only 560 State staff receive nod to run foreign accounts

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission offices in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Only 560 government employees have been cleared to operate bank accounts outside Kenya, highlighting the tight measures by anti-graft agency to plug a loophole that public officials use to steal and stash billions of shillings abroad.

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), in a status report on the fight against corruption, said the public officers were cleared in the past five years.

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