EACC Names Most Corrupt Gov't Ministries, Departments and Counties

The Ministry of Interior has been named the most corrupt Kenyan government ministry in a new report released on Monday by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).

Dubbed National Corruption Survey 2017, the report indicates that the ministry headed by Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i was the most corrupt with 64.7 percent.

Ministries of Health (27.8%) and Lands (23.9%) were second and third respectively while Transport Ministry (13 percent), Education (11.7 percent) and Devolution (10.3 percent) closed the top five list.

Kenya Police was ranked the most corrupt government department with 28.3 percent followed by the National Police Service Commission (13.7 percent) public hospitals (9.8 percent), Kenya Revenue Authority (8 percent), National Land Commission (7.3 percent), National Transport and Safety Authority (4.9 percent) and Immigration department (4.3 percent).

Mandera was ranked the most corrupt Kenyan county followed by Kisumu County, Busia, Nyamira and Murang'a.

Nairobi was the sixth most corrupt county, followed by Marsabit, Turkana and Uasin Gishu while Wajir closed the list of top 10 corrupt counties.

The survey was carried out from September 18th to October 24th last year and 5,977 respondents from across the 47 counties were interviewed

The 2017 report was unveiled at an event held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi.