KENYA: FORMER SPORTS MINISTER ARRESTED

Former Sports Cabinet Secretary, Rashid Echesa

By Waweru Titus, Nairobi KENYA

Former Sports Cabinet Secretary, Rashid Echesa, was arrested on Wednesday and taken to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters along Kiambu Road.

Sources aware of the arrest say the former CS is being held over suspected fraudulent dealings.

Echesa is being interrogated by officers at the DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road.

His vehicles were also impounded during the Thursday arrest.

Echesa was fired in March last year when President Uhuru Kenyatta reorganised his power axis to achieve his Big Four legacy dream.

Before his sacking, Echesa was under fire at the ministry with various graft scandals emerging and national teams constantly complaining of being under-funded.

In May last year, the former Sports CS was arrested alongside Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala over killings by a criminal gang which left 18 people dead in Matungu, Kakamega County.

Police intercepted Echesa while he was on his way to attend to another meeting in Likuyani where Deputy President William Ruto was going to commission the construction of a road. - Africa