Former National Intelligence Service/ military intelligence officer Twalib Mbarak and new EACC CEO has prevented a scheme that was well organised to siphon Ksh4.5 billion.
The well laid out scheme was in a tender that was designated as officially secret and accessible only to authorized people in short classiffied as it involved the purchase of sophisticated weapons meant for prisons.
Although Mr Mbarak did not give more information, documents seen in the news rooms show that at least nine senior government officials and politicians were listed by EACC as persons of interest.
So far 19 people had been interrogated concerning the scheme that would have resulted in the loss of Sh3.8 billion in two weeks and eventually Sh4.8 billion.
In the scheme,prevented by EACC detectives, payment of Sh3.6 billion (80 percent) was to be paid before the delivery of the security items but the shocking part of the tender was that there was no tender performance security or bank guarantee, exposing the government to high risk loss.
Documents obtained by the Daily Nation show that some companies, some owned by local politicians, were awarded the tenders despite having no valid PIN and Tax Compliance certificates. Some of them had forged Local Purchase Orders.
The tenders included the supply of bullet proof vests and plastic helmets amounting to Sh2.2 billion. The tender was awarded to Firetruss Systems.
Pakistan Ordinance was awarded a tender worth Sh595.7 million to supply standard G3 firearms and another Sh478.5 million tender for the supply of submachine guns.
Another company, Mildat ZO. O, was hired to supply rifles and fullbore target rifles amounting to Sh343 million.
And even though traditionally all guns are bought with slings already attached to them, there was a tender to supply slings worth Sh200 million.
This tender was awarded to Milways Enterprises associated with a politician we are yet to identify.The EACC has already questioned Post-Training and Skills Development Principal Secretary Alfred Cheruiyot and former Sports Principal Secretary Richard Ekai over the scandal the commission says violated the Public Procurement and Disposal Act.