Prison scam is steaming up at a very high rate with list of big names being mentioned as masterminds in the engineering of the siphon of 4.8 Billion.
One of the dubious payments that the department was immediately required to wire to 10 suppliers was Sh4.8 billion for the procurement of classified security items.
The department of Correctional Services is domiciled in the Ministry of Interior, currently headed by Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi and oversees prisons.
A cautious Hussein declined to pay and instead invited auditors who unearthed massive rot that now threatens the career many senior officers including her predecessor Alfred Cheruiyot.
Cheruiyot, who signed the security contracts, is currently the PS of Post Training and Skills Development in the Ministry of Education.
Some of the make-believe items the department purportedly wanted to secure are heavy artillery, which is not meant for prison warders.
It includes submachine guns worth Sh478.5 million, full-bore target rifles worth Sh342.72 million and bulletproof vests and plastic helmets worth Sh2.2 billion.
Apart from Cheruiyot, other persons of interest in the scandal are former PS Richard Ekai, veteran Provincial administrator Claire Omollo and Head of Supply Chain Mangiti Mieri.
Ekai, who was later moved to the Ministry of Sports, has been arraigned alongside his former boss Hassan Wario over the 2016 Rio scandal.
Omollo served as Secretary Administration in the ministry and was a member of the tender evaluation committee.
The others are James Mwalo Kodieny, Joseph Kamau Mwangi, Rose Nekesa Muturi, Sarah Kemunto Karandi and Benjamin Njoka.
The EACC has already sent their investigation file to the DPP Noordin Haji and is awaiting his nod to arrest the suspects.