Head of Banking Fraud Unit Joseph Mugwanja, who was linked to the Sh791 Million National Youth Service saga, has been transferred to Kenya Airports Police Unit a few months after an explosive affidavit by one of the suspects in the scandal, Josephine Kabura.
The announcement made by CID boss Ndegwa Muhoro will see Mr Mugwanja replaced at the Fraud Unit by Kajiado Directorate of Criminal Investigations Chief Ngatia Ireri.
Mugwanja is reportedly taking over from Joseph Ngisa, who will be retiring from the Kenya Airports Police Unit at the end of the month.
In February, while leading the Banking Fraud Investigations Department, Mr Mugwanja was accused by Ms Kabura of playing part in the infamous NYS scandal that saw the loss of a whopping Sh791 Million.
According to the court papers by Ms Kabura, though Mr Mugwanja appeared to be investigating the fraud at the service, he was working hand in hand with former Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru, who was at the centre of the probe.
Ms Kabura unveiled that Waiguru ordered her to pay Mugwanja Sh80 Million in a cover up scheme, when the anti-graft detectives went to her office.
She revealed that when she was being investigated, her own arrest and the raid on her house by anti-graft detectives were fake, since she had been tipped off by Mugwanja.
She further claimed that Mr Mugwanja, who was the lead investigator in the massive theft at NYS, bailed her out when she was apprehended by police on July 21 last year and did not spend the night at Kileleshwa Station as it was presumed by many.
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Ms Kabura also indicated that she had meetings with Muganjwa, Waiguru, Political Scientist Mutahi Ngunyi, Mr Hassan Noor (the then Devolution Ministry Chief of Staff) who she claimed were all involved in the corruption saga.
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