For the second day running, treasury cabinet secretary Henry Rotich was grilled the DCI headquarters over the 21 billion shilling dam scandal.
According to a high profile detective who spoke to the star on conditions of anonymity, “We will be recommending his prosecution for failure to safeguard public money.”
Rotich is at the centre of investigations because he is accused of authorising payment of billions of shillings before construction of the two dams started.
It can’t be true that CS Rotich singularly paid out all these billions of shillings in the said dams scandals, all against government financial procedures en regulations without reference to & without the approval of the PS, the Cabinet & the President. We demand full disclosure! pic.twitter.com/xQfNqPKr7L— Boni Khalwale (@KBonimtetezi) March 6, 2019
He is also accused of writing to the National Land Commission and asking the agency to deal with land allocation issues to enable KVDA to resettle residents displaced by the projects.
The probe was triggered by a letter from Italy to President Kenyatta, saying the Italian company had difficulties in continuing with the project.
It was then that the President demanded to know what had happened amid revelations that part of the initial payments for the projects were kickbacks.
Those aware of the probe said the questions were on more than 200 pages and ranged from why payments were made without proper paper work and safeguards to concerns about high premiums for loans.
The CS was asked to explain why billions of shillings were paid to an Italian firm before the two projects commenced.
The contractors had told the investigators they used the Itare Dam project and another dam in South Africa as their due diligence check to start Arror and Kimwarer.
A team was sent to South Africa last Thursday to establish if there was such a dam and came back on Saturday. It is not clear what they found out.