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Ex-deputy Auditor General among 6 arrested over Sh100m tender

EACC CEO Twalib Mbarak (left) and Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji at a past event. They have been investigating the alleged irregular procurement at the Office of the Auditor-General. [File, Standard]

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) today arrested six people over an inflated software tender in the office of the Auditor-General.

The six among them former deputy Auditor-General Stephen Ndungú Kinuthia are accused of buying an audit vault software at Sh100,675,680 against its estimated cost of Sh18 million.

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