By NATION Correspondents 

The public has submitted nearly 300 letters identifying alleged corrupt public officers to a newly launched anti-corruption team in Nyanza Province.

Provincial Commissioner John Nandasaba said residents were cooperating with the committee formed last month.

He ordered the police to arrest a contractor assigned to build the Yala Municipal market last year over the alleged misuse of Sh1.3 million.

Mr Nandasaba said another Sh7 million received by the municipal council last year from the Local Authority Transfer Fund was not spent properly and urged the police to investigate the chief officers and councillors involved in the expenditure.

The PC said corrupt civil servants would be sacked.

He ordered the dissolution of the Yala Sub-District Hospital management board citing mismanagement and told the medical officer of health to form another board.

Mr Nandasaba was installing Mr Naboth Osanya as the North Gem chief at Nyagondo market, Siaya District.

The PC said some 65,700 national identity cards were uncollected in various administrative centres. He told district commissionersto facilitate their collection.

Local leaders, among them Siaya County Council chairman Aggrey Onyango and Gem NDP coordinator Israel Agina, had complained of late issuance of identity cards.

The anti-corruption committee was formed last month.