Transport Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau will appear in court to answer to abuse of office charges relating to a road design tender.
His counterparts Kazungu Kambi (Labour), Charity Ngilu (Lands) and Felix Koskei (Agriculture) have walked away scotfree. The Director of Public Prosecutions revealed today he had accepted the EACC’s recommendations to prosecute Kamau, close the file on Mrs Ngilu and turn Mr Koskei into a witness against other suspects.
He, however, rejected a recommendation to charge Kambi over two irregular appointments saying he was not satisfied with the evidence. EACC’s recommendations on Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko over an incident at the Mtwapa weighbridge in Kilifi county were also accepted by the DPP’s office.
Mr Kamau is accused of colluding in the irregular trashing of the Kamukuywa-Kaptama-Kapsokwony-Kimilili road design “leading to massive embezzlement of funds”. He is also under investigation for allegedly illegally contracting a local firm to handle cargo belonging to the Chinese firm contracted to build the standard gauge railway, and directing billions of shillings of SGR-related in consultancy work to a firm linked to him.
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