Investigators yesterday interrogat- ed two employees of a telco accom- panied by the firm’s lawyer.
The name of the firm whose em- ployees are involved is yet to be made public by the DCI.
Investigators are trying to un- ravel under whose instructions the employees deleted data from the late AP Sergeant Kipyegon Kenei’s phone on the morning of February 19.
Detectives managed to get the data from servers of the mobile phone service provider as they try to crack details surrounding Ke- nei’s death.
Three Department of Defence staff in the procurement depart- ment are believed to have prepared the Sh39 billion fake procurement contract for the supply of military equipment.
Kenei, according to the DCI, was a key player in the fake mili- tary tender and had been seen as a principal witness against the scam.
DoD spokesperson Bogita Ongeri already clarified that military pro- curement follows strict laws under the Public Procurement and Dis- posal Act and that no procurement of arms was underway.
The fake arms procurement contract was allegedly supposed to be signed between DoD and two Polish businessmen in Ruto’s Harambee House Annex office on February 13 before detectives were tipped off.
It is not clear whether the DoD officials mentioned in the scandal involving former Sports CS Rashid Echesa are military personnel or civilians attached to Ulinzi House.
Some of the key support departments within the military have a blend of soldiers and civilian ex- perts.
Officers investigating the murder der of Kenei have concluded that the officer was killed to cover up explosive details of the fraudulent military tender that has roiled the DP’s office.
The three DoD staff were in con- tact with the fake military general Daniel Otieno who was arrested alongside Echesa moments after they exited the DP’s office.
Echesa and the ‘general’ are out on bond after they were arraigned last month in connection with the fake procurement deal.
“It is clear that the alleged pro- curement was a fraudulent scheme since the military informed us there was no procurement of such a manner going on. We want to know how the officers managed to get the DoD letterheads,” an officer aware of the investigations told the Star.
The DoD staff are said to have also forged Defence CS Raychelle Omamo’s signature contained in the fake tender documents confis- cated from Echesa’s car.
On Sunday, the investigating team visited DoD to update the authorities on the emerging di- mension of the investigations and got the greenlight from the top military command to interrogate officers linked to the scam.
“We have the express authority to interrogate the DoD officers who are planned to come any time this week,” the officer said, adding that unmasking the fake general’s con- tacts would be key in the unmask- ing the masterminds of the fraudu- lent tender.
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