The names of five Kenya Power staff who are suspected to have embezzled Sh1 billion by manipulating the system have been revealed.
The five; Tonny Kaberia Mwaongera, Samson Githundi Kimani, Angela Njeri Kiama, James Kariuki and Shadrack Kitavi are under investigations by the detectives for their involvement in Sh1 billion fraud case.
A Kiambu court has issued a search warrant order allowing police detectives to continue investigating five IT experts staff at Kenya Power over the alleged fraudulent embezzlement.
Senior principal magistrate Stella Atambo granted application for search warrant order by investigating officer Juliet Kimwei attached to DCI serious crime unit headquarters to access the premise of the five suspects.
The IT experts are suspected to have embezzled Sh1 billion by manipulating the system.
Mbevi told the court that the five staff mentioned in the affidavit abused their special rights as IT experts of the integrated customer management system of KPLC to fraudulently embezzle the money.
The magistrate directed the case to be mentioned after 30 days on April 17, for the purpose of confirming the outcome of the investigations.
Kenya power is not new to controversies as it was only last year when its two consecutive top Executives were arraigned in court for craft cases in the company.