News just in indicates that Trade Minister Moses
Wetangula went into hiding yesterday evening, after his former Permanent Secretary
in Foreign Affairs Thuita Mwnagi was arrested by Ethics and Anti –Corruption
Commission (EACC) officers, over the illegal sale of Tokyo embassy in year
2009.
The commission officers picked up Mr Mwangi from his office and
took him to EACC headquarters at Integrity House. Thuita was accompanied by his
lawyer Evans Monari.
Credible sources said Mwangi was booked into a police
station in Nairobi, and will be arraigned in court today to face charges of abuse
of office, willful failure to comply with the law and applicable procedures
relating to procurement, conspiracy to commit an offense of corruption and
false assumption of authority.
Mwangi together with Moses Wetangula had been earlier
accused by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee of conspiring to defraud the
government Sh 1.2 billion in Tokyo scandal, when Wetangula was Foreign Affairs
Minister.
Mwangi stepped aside together with Wetangula but they were
later given a clean bill of health by Parliamentary Accounts Committee and they
were reinstated to their offices.
Sources said Wetangula was
hiding in Prime Minister Raila Odinga's house in Karen. If he will not
surrender, police will move to court on Thursday to seek an arrest warrant,
effectively ending his participation in the campaign.
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