Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission CEO Twalib Mbarak has said the Commission has come up with new ways to fight corruption.
Speaking on Wednesday, Mbarak said among the remedial measures the Commission is focusing on identified trends, prone areas asset tracing and recovery.
"EACC is currently analysing the wealth of former state officials who served in both national and county governments with a view to recovering unexplained wealth acquired during their tenure of office," Mbarak said.
The anti-graft body is also focused on profiling new state officials especially zoning on their wealth so as to be able to detect any "abnormal upsurge".
He spoke during an engagement with the Kenya Editors Guild.
Mbarak said, so far, the Commission has established that most of the new state officers and especially governors have registered new companies through proxies.
"We suspect these to be vehicles for perpetuating procurement fraud," he added, saying that their suspects are looking to recoup the funds lost during campaigns.
The CEO said among the trends of corruption that the EACC has noted is in the county governments.
"Most governors have made their counties dens of corruption and involving spouses, children, relatives and associates resulting in looting billions of public funds," he said.
Among the cases they have had, Mbarak said most involve embezzlement, fraudulent payment of "pending bills" and procurement fraud which involve conflict of Interest.
He also said the cases include employment irregularities with either there being ghost workers, promotion of nepotism or employment of persons without the required qualifications.
The Commission has also noted corruption in the government service delivery points while officials are involved in extortion, bribery and collusion between public officials and brokers.
Twalib further said the vice has seeped into the traffic sector where even the public is involved.
He regretted that it has become a 'norm' for vehicle operators to break traffic rules carelessly knowing that they can simply pay off and avoid facing punishment for the same.
"Traffic corruption is not petty corruption," Mbarak said.
Further, there is a trend of corruption in capital-intensive projects through kickbacks, overpricing, multiple allocation of budgets to the same project, irregular variation of project costs and abandoning of incomplete projects.
Mbarak said most of the state projects are stranded due to corruption, adding that it is a vice that needs to be eradicated, through collaboration.
