EACC CEO Twalib Mbarak now says there is a need for the increase of human resources for the actors in the criminal justice sector.
These include the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Judiciary.
Mbarak said the increase of staff members and finances will enable them to effectively and efficiently address various election issues of concern, within their respective mandates.
"The last one that we need to present in this committee is the strengthening of the capacity in terms of the financial and human resource for all actors of the criminal justice system," he said.
Mbarak spoke on Tuesday during a meeting with the National Dialogue Committee at Bomas of Kenya.
He said the anti-graft body is supposed to have about 1,550 staff members.
This is after the officials took their structure to the Public Service Commission (PSC) and it was approved.
That was four years ago.
"Up to now, we are still at 790 because the budget allocation has not increased at all. Out of that, we are having a lot of challenges," he said.
"And the same problem happens to ODPP and the Judiciary."
Further, Mbarak said there was a need for the separation of mandates for agencies on corruption, economic crime and unethical conduct.
This is on EACC, DCI and KRA, which the Commission's Secretary said will help avoid duplicity of roles.
He noted that the Constitution was clear that the Parliament is to establish an anti-corruption body.
"When you talk like that, it is not like there's DCI and other agencies. So, we are the specialists in the anti-corruption activities and we think that there needs to be a very clear division," he said.
He said they were having "sibling rivalry", especially in cases where other colleagues tell them their mandate according to the constitution is to fight crime, which encompasses corruption.
"Those are things that need to be very clear. We also saw the abuse where other agencies had some corruption cases and when there was a change of regime, these cases were collapsing because there was an element that was more of a political vendetta than a professional approach to the fight against corruption," Mbarak said.
