Detectives from the Ethic and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Wednesday, May 13, raided Kilifi County offices and arrested senior officials.
Three staffers were taken into custody for failure to provide documentation on recently launched Covid-19 Medical Complex.
They included Kilifi County Secretary Anorld Mkare, Chief Officer for Public Health, Alio Ibrahim, and his medical Services counterpart, Bilal Mazoya.
The medical complex was unveiled on Wednesday, May 6,to an applause over Kilifi County Governor Amason Kingi efforts in combating the Covid-19 pandemic in the county.
Reports indicated that the detectives were still trailing other senior members of the county in what they suspect could have been a plot misappropriate Covid-19 funds.
It was alleged that the tender of the facility, which consumed in the upwards of Ksh800 million in two phases, was irregularly awarded.
Kingi had earlier praised the medical complex as a major boost in the fight against Covid-19 and also a feature that would serve the county residents long after the pandemic has been countered.
Some features of the facility included a well-equipped medical section and modern doctors' residence set to benefit medical practitioners working in the hospital.
"The completion of the ultra-modern health complex in Kilifi County has given our county government a much-needed boost in our efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
"A section of the four-story building has been converted into a 150-bed isolation center with 2 critical care rooms fitted with ventilators and ICU beds," stated Kingi.
The facility also boasts a cancer centre that will offer chemotherapy and radiotherapy services to cancer patients in the county and beyond.
