This archive report was first published on 26 July 2019.
On July 26, 2019, David Kimosop, the former managing director of the Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA), was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as he returned to Kenya from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo through Tanzania.
Mr. Kimosop was the last of the key suspects in the Sh63 billion Kimwarer and Arror dams scandal to be arrested. Other suspects include former Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, former principal secretaries Kamau Thugge and Susan Koech, and National Environment Management Authority Director-General Geoffrey Wahungu.
Mr. Kimosop's lawyer, Katwa Kigen, had previously requested the court to give him more time to present his client for plea-taking because he had traveled outside the country.
Mr. Kimosop is accused of conspiring with the directors of Italian company CMC Di Ravenna to defraud taxpayers in the construction of Kimwarer Dam, as well as jointly conspiring to defraud the government of Sh27,740,760,550 between December 17, 2014 and September 27, 2018.
He will be arraigned on Friday morning.
