“Washindwe” DP Ruto sacrifices Echesa on Sh 39 Billion fake arms deal

Kenya’s Deputy President’s Harambee House Annex was raided by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives on Friday in search of evidence for the Ksh39 billion fake Arms scandal. The detectives are said to have been looking for the relevant Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage for the period of significance with the case to them. The saga has seen ex CS Rashid Echesa arrested on Friday and remanded for 3 days to allow complete investigations.

Alongside Rashid, DP’s personal aide of the Farouk Kibet, Chief of Staff Ken Osinde and Private Secretary Reuben Maiyo are wanted in the investigation, to ascertain the manner which the office of the DP was allegedly used for alleged corrupt deals.

The sham Sh39 billion government arms tender deal was allegedly crafted by Rashid Echesa and three others; Kennedy Oyoo Mboya, Clifford Okoth, and Daniel Otieno Omondi, brokered at the DP’s Annex office in Nairobi.

The Deputy President William Ruto has however told the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) to go for the real criminals who masterminded the fake Sh39 billion military equipment tender deal.
The DP Ruto distanced himself from the saga, adding that the efforts to link his office to the ongoing criminal investigations is a smear campaign by his political enemies.

“The desperation of my political competitors on their choreographed smear campaign against WsR is evident even for fools (whom we have a shortage for)to see. Just wait and see where this will end up. Washindwe! Go for the fraudsters. Leave me to serve the nation,” Ruto wrote on Twitter.
The DP said that Echesa and others being pursued by the DCI are just scape goats and soon, the government machinery will be directed to him.
“Just wait and see where this will end up. Washindwe! Go for the fraudsters. Leave me to serve the nation,” said the DP.

Echesa is said to have used the high level Office of the Deputy President and the signature of Defence Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma to mastermind the fake multi-billion-shilling deal to supply military surveillance equipment and guns.
The complainant, who is an American based in Poland, told the police that Rashid Echesa approached them through e-mail, introducing himself as a Kenyan politician who would link them up with a lucrative Sh39.5 billion tender.