The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) reportedly made a big blunder in the case against former Kenya Power Directors Ken Tarus and Ben Chumo.
According to The Standard, the mistakes which included selective investigations were exposed by a witness set to testify for the DCI.
Linus Ndegwa, an official from the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority, told the court on Tuesday that he neither contacted the accused persons to get their side of the story nor was he supplied with all the necessary documents to carry out thorough investigations.
He was engaged by the DCI to probe claims of Ksh409 million expenditure on faulty transformers under the watch of several former and current KP bosses.
Ndegwa also admitted that although six firms participated in the tender, he was asked by the DCI officers to only focus on one company.
The company was subsequently charged, although this revelation is likely to cast doubts on the thoroughness of investigations.
Despite Ndegwa being engaged for his expertise in procurement matters, his investigations only relied on documents supplied by the DCI in their offices.
He also admitted he never followed rules governing such an investigation when preparing the report.
Some of the documents that the DCI did not provide the investigator include the advertisement for the tenders and requisition forms.
The investigator, however, admitted that he flouted the law by asking the DCI, to give him the documents instead of Kenya Power and the implicated companies.
"DCI was not the procuring entity and did not participate in the tender," Ndegwa noted.
