Probe on dams scandal now sucks in top State officials

Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji and Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti during the National Council on Administration of Justice meeting in Naivasha. [File, Standard]

Investigations into multi-billion shilling dams and irrigation projects in Rift Valley have ballooned, sucking in senior government officials.

The three day grilling of Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, is said to have turned in so much information on what was otherwise a simple affair. So much so that the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji had to apprise the country of its complexity and beg time to haul culprits in court.