‘I’m not a coward!’ EACC boss Twalib Mbarak speaks on receiving death threats

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Chief Executive Officer Twalib Mbarak has opened up on receiving numerous death threats from politicians who are the subject of investigations by the State agency.

Mbarak, speaking on Citizen TV’s Jeff Koinange Live show on Wednesday night, revealed that he has however always managed to remain unbowed and continue executing his mandate despite the said threats.

The anti-graft agency boss said that he does not cower at the face of dubious threats to his person, and instead handles the antagonists head-on.

“If you’re CEO of EACC and somebody calls you and says ‘we’re going to sack you, tengeneza hii kesi,’ and you start panicking, what will happen? You will run down the organization. So when somebody comes, you tell them ‘the only solution for this case is one, tell the guy to get good lawyers, tukutane kortini,’” he stated.

“I do get threats, but I’m not scared, I’m not a coward. In the military we say ‘cowards die many times.’ And I’m not a coward, I’ll die once, not many times. So those threats, I don’t get scared.”

Mbarak further went ahead to dispel the existence of an alleged secret group dubbed ‘cartels’ that operate in the shadows and have been in existence for decades, controlling the political show behind the scenes.

“You can’t say the cartels have been around for decades, the lifespan of a human being is about 60 years. So which is this cartel that started with people who were 20 years and now they’re 70 and are still cartels? Cartels evolve, and they’re all over the world; even if you go to the US, or Brazil. Cartels are everywhere, but they need to be contained,” he stated.