Former Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA) Managing Director David Kimosop has been arrested.
The embattled former MD was arrested Friday morning at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as he returned from Tanzania on orders from the Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti.
This contradicts information from his lawyer Katwa Kigen, who on Tuesday told the Court that his client had travelled to Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He had requested the court to give him more time to present his client for plea-taking. Kimosop is currently in lawful custody being processed for arraignment.
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He was the only high profile suspect in the Sh63 billion Kimwarer and Arror dams’ scandal who had not been arrested.
Immediate former Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, former Principal Secretaries Kamau Thugge and Susan Koech, and National Environment Management Authority Director-General Geoffrey Wahungu were arrested on Monday and charged on Tuesday in a Nairobi Court.