Details of a reported day-long meeting hosted at Deputy President William Ruto's home in connection with the military scandal rocking his office have started spilling out.
According to a report by Daily Nation, the DP summoned his staff for the meeting that took place in his Karen home on Wednesday, February 19, reportedly to come up with a strategy to counter the ongoing negative narrative.
Ruto was allegedly concerned with constant leaks of information from his staff to the media and political rival camps.
The staff included those attached to his home and those from his office at Harambee House Annex in Nairobi CBD.
By the evening that day, as the meeting was still going on, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) made two more arrests of people attached to Pzel Company Limited.
The two, Chrispine Oduor Odipo and Doreen Naomi Ratemo, are the directors of the firm suspected to have received Ksh11.5 million kickback on behalf of suspects in the Ksh40 billion military equipment supply scandal.
They were nabbed at Plaza 2000 on Mombasa Road in Nairobi and taken to DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road for questioning.
Ruto's meeting came after the DCI grilled employees from his office after reviewing CCTV footage from Thursday, February 13, the day Echesa was arrested and roped in two unidentified aides of the DP.
Surveillance footage obtained by investigators showed that former Sports CS Rashid Echesa, accompanied by two representatives of Eco Advanced Technologies LLC, had arrived at Harambee House Annex on Thursday, February 13, at 9.39 a.m. before they left 23 minutes later.
Echesa was arrested and charged alongside three other individuals; Daniel Otieno Omondi, Clifford Okoth Onyango and Kennedy Oyoo.
Ruto's Chief of Staff Ken Osinde, through a letter to the Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai, urged the police to investigate how the suspect gained entry into his office.
