• Kimosop spent over five hours at the DCI headquarters, Kiambu road on Wednesday.
• Kimosop was required to explain further what documents KVDA had used to seek funds from
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Kerio Valley Development Authority Managing Director David Kimosop was questioned for a second time by the police probing the billions of shillings construction of Arror and Kimwarer dams.
Kimosop spent over five hours at the DCI headquarters, Kiambu road on Wednesday where he was pressed for answers into the construction of the two dams.
The MD had earlier been questioned by DCI investigators from the Serious Crime Unit over the same matter.
Kimosop was required to explain further what documents KVDA had used to seek funds from the Governments Integrated Financial Management System (Ifmis).
This is after investigators noted that some crucial documents that were required for the approval of the funds were missing, sources familiar with the investigations told the Star.
Kimosop drove to the DCI headquarters at around 10 am and was yet to leave the building by 4 pm.
The sources said Kimosop was also required to provide to the investigators KVDA financial statements showing all people who had received cash in relations to the construction of the two dams.
The MD is among top government officials who have so far recorded statements with the DCI over the dams scandal.
DCI chief George Kinoti has since revealed that three cabinet secretaries among them Mwangi Kinjuri, Eugene Wamalwa and Simon Chelugui would appear before investigators to shed light over the same issue.
MPs defend CS Rotich
Five Kalenjin MPs last week asked President Uhuru Kenyatta not to sack Finance Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich over the multi-billion dams scandals.
They accused President Kenyatta of sacrificing the Kalenjin tribe in a bid to stop Deputy President William Ruto from succeeding him in 2022.
Rotich reportedly went against the advice of the Attorney General and signed off the deal with an Italian company that is now facing collapse.
Last week, a senior investigator told the Star, "We will be recommending his (Roticch) prosecution for failure to safeguard public money."
The Star established that the investigators had put emphasis on the Sh21 billion that Treasury released for the construction of the two dams
The CS was grilled on a wide range of issues including the possibility that the companies awarded the cash would collapse with public funds.
“We sought to know the safety of the public funds now that the company that was to do the job is facing financial problems," the investigator said.