Former CS Rashid Echesa To Spend Valentine’s Weekend In Jail

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It also emerged that one of the American merchants keen to win the tender to supply guns and ammunition had been hosted by the former CS at Harambee House Annex Building, where Deputy President has his office.

Former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa and his two co-accused will spend his Valentine’s weekend at the Muthaiga Police station.

The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) Magistrate Court’s Lucas Onyona however ordered that they be released on Monday at 6pm on a police cash bail of KSh.1million each to allow officers complete their investigations and search the houses of the accused.

Magistrate Onyona has barred the accused trio from contacting any of the witnesses lined up for the case.

Prosecutors had earlier requested the court that the ex-CS who was arrested on Thursday be held for 21 days so that detectives could travel to the United States to check the authenticity of the documents found in his car.

His lawyer Evans Ondieki, opposed the prosecution’s request to detain him longer, argued against the timing of the arrest. He held that the office of the DCI was being used to wage political battles.

Former CS Echesa was arrested on Harambee Avenue, Nairobi on Thursday following a complaint by foreigners from the US and Poland-based Eco Advanced Technologies LLC claimed the former CS had promised to use his influence to help them secure the multi-billion shilling security tender and had already paid Ksh11.5 million as ‘consultancy fees

It also emerged that one of the American merchants keen to win the tender to supply guns and ammunition had been hosted by the former CS at Harambee House Annex Building, where Deputy President has his office.

Police visited the building on Thursday and recovered copies of the documents that Echesa had allegedly given to the investors.

Echesa however argued that his arrest was politically instigated because of his stance in the ongoing Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).