Days after the Kenya Pipeline Company MD Joe Sang handed a letter to the board — saying he would not go for another term, DCI sleuths have this morning arrested the MD Joe Sang and several top managers over an alleged corruption scandal.
Some of the managers arrested include Company Secretary Gloria Khafafa and the Head of Procurement Vincent Cheruiyot.
Already, Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji has appointed Queen’s Counsel Khawar Qureshi to lead corruption cases, which is seen as a pointer to more arrests. Mr Qureshi is, among other things, an expert on oil and gas litigation.
The arrests which began early Friday morning come after full-on investigations by DCI over the disappearance of fuel in the Kisumu oil jetty.
DCI says the search for other managers is ongoing while those in police custody are being questioned at its headquarters in Kiambu.
The Kenya Pipeline Company has had its fair share of multibillion shilling scandals this year. In October, DCI boss George Kinoti had summoned Sang, Board Director John Ngumi and five other officials to record statements over the Sh1.8 billion Kisumu oil jetty scandal.
The State Corporation has recently also been questioned on the Sh48 billion, 450-kilometre Mombasa-Nairobi line 5 pipeline enhancement project, whose tender was awarded to Lebanese firm Zakheem Limited.
Again in May, detectives from Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission raided the homes and offices of staff of Kenya Pipeline Corporation in a probe into fraud allegations. The officials went to the Nairobi homes of former Managing Director Charles Tanui, General Manager- Finance Samuel Odoyo and Amina Juma of procurement, searching for documents over the alleged fraud in the Sh647 million supply of hydrant pit valves. 
EACC CEO Halakhe Waqo said the commission was investigating allegations of corruption in the award of the supply of the Hydrant pit valves complete with isolation valves and two year operational spares at Sh647 million.
Mr Sang made the mistake of going on record to defend a Gill House-based company, Aero Dispenser Valves Limited, which had been awarded a Sh600 million tender to supply aircraft refuelling equipment for Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by a previous MD, Mr Charles Tanui, an appointee of then Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir.
While Mr Sang had said in paid-up adverts that Aero Dispenser Valves was owned by Jackson Odero, Michael Opudo and Willbard Otieno, the detectives later found out that the company was owned by Francis Obure and Beryl Khasinah, the wife of John Huba Waka — Mr Juma’s nephew. More so, the company had never filed its returns since November 2014 despite receiving contracts worth Sh647 million.
Mr Sang had also inherited the Sh48 billion 450-kilometre Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline, a controversial project that had been awarded to a Lebanese firm, Zakhem, which was unable to complete it on schedule, leading to extra costs.