Henry Rotich is a Finance Minister
NAIROBI, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kenyan police have summoned Finance Minister, Henry Rotich for questioning for a second time over a multi-million dollar scandal involving advance payments for two dam projects, the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said.
The DCI said it was investigating what it described as fraudulent construction of the two dams valued at 63 billion shillings. Some payments had already been made despite the dams not being built, it said.
Rotich, in a statement published by local media on Sunday, said that up to 19.8 billion shillings ($198 million) had been paid in advance to various firms for the Arror and Kimwarer dams.
He said the payments had been made in accordance with the law.
“He (Rotich) must answer several questions,” George Kinoti, the head of the DCI, said.
Rotich present himself at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters in Nairobi at around 6 am on Tuesday. — NNN-AGENCIES:
