Things are turning out worse for the Ex-CS Rashid Echesa after the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has launched investigations into him over his alleged connection to money laundering activities.
Echesa may have been exposed to money laundering by his associate Joseph Waswa who is linked with last week’s recovery of Ksh32 billion fake currency in Ruiru,
People Daily reports.
According to a sleuth privy to the probe, the sacked CS was in constant communication with Waswa.
A call data analysis showed that Waswa had been in communication with two other suspects, Joseph Munyao and Nancy Muthoni, and in most cases, he would call Echesa after calling the two.
Detectives are trying to establish if the former CS visited the building where the fake currency was found.
They also want to establish the relationship between the former Echesa and Cameroonian Peter Longa who was extradited from the country in 2018 over money laundering.
“In accordance with Article 152(5) of the Constitution, as read together with Article 152(1)(d) of the Constitution, the appointment of Mr. Rashid Echesa Mohamed, as a Cabinet Secretary has been vacated,” read a statement in the Executive Order No.3 of 2019.
Rashid Echesa was fired by president Uhuru Kenyatta over incompetency claims.