Seven senior managers of the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) have this morning been arrested in a second wave of arrests targeting current and former managers at the State-owned firm.
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers held the seven over loss of public funds totalling more than Sh660 million in the October 2014 procurement of 58 Hydrant Pit Valves to replace faulty ones at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
The anti-graft watchdog is also looking for nine more suspects including former KPC managing director Charles Tanui and two directors of Aero Dispenser Valve Ltd. Kenyan authorities have approached their Canadian counterparts to investigate and prosecute the managers of Allied Inspection and Testing Inc led by its proprietor Jim Yukes.
Those in custody are the general manager finance Samuel Odoyo and procurement manager Nicholas Gitobu, both of whom had earlier been charged alongside outgoing managing director Joe Sang for graft arising from the Sh1.9 billion Kisumu Oil Jetty.
Others in custody are business development officer Peter Gaitho Machua, administration manager Jane Jesanai Nakodony, a senior electrical engineer Charles Nderitu Maitai, a procurement officer Fredrick Kagosh Ogenga and a director of Aero Dispenser Valve Ltd Francis Omondi Obure.
The seven were to take pleas on Tuesday.
EACC is also seeking eight others including Mr Tanui, operations manager Philip Kimelu, chief manager electrical Bramwell Wanyalika, ICT manager Francis Muraya, mechanical engineer Charles Ochieng’ Ouko, accountant Emilio Mwai Nderitu, two directors of the Kenyan front – John Huba Waka and his wife Beryl Aluoch Khasina – and Canadian Mr Yukes.
Do you think they will be released like the others?