The proposal comes a week after lawmakers announced a move to table a private members bill to amend the Anti Corruption Act to insert provisions to confiscate properties of the corrupt. They are also calling for life imprisonment for those convicted of corruption related charges.

This proposal included in the draft private member’s Bill, “The Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Bill 2012” which intends to cure existing disparities that exist between how political leaders and public servants are treated.

Civil servants accused of engaging in corruption are by law susceptible to interdiction and forced to leave office until the matter is resolved but its not clear how politicians are treated as it is normally left to their appointing authority to determine whether the implicated officer continues serving or not.
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Mwondha says she is aggrieved by the two defaming articles published in the Sunday Monitor newspaper in August 2007, indicating that she was fraudulently receiving two salaries, one as IGG and another as a judge.

She says that the said articles showed that government had commission an investigation against her and a report had been made recommending that she should be sacked and prosecuted for offences of corruption and abuse of office.

Mwondha is seeking for general and aggravated damages and also an injunction restraining the respondents, their servants and agents from publishing such false and malicious statements against her.

She also wants court to order them pay costs of the suit.  Mwondha has filed the suit through Omunyokoo and Company advocates.

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