The war against graft is expected to get murkier starting next week after details emerged that President Uhuru Kenyatta has given detectives the green light to go for big shots in his administration.
Sources said Uhuru met the Multi-Agency Task Team (MATT) shortly before he left to the US and handed him a secret envelope containing high profile figures implicated in graft.
The team was seeking the President’s direction on individuals as some of them are ‘too senior’ and other his close confidantes.
The President is said to have been categorical that anybody touched, as long as there is enough evidence not to embarrass him later, should be arrested and charged.
And because of the high profile people named in the secret dossier, the President was forced to hold two meetings, one at night, at State House and Harambee house on Friday with top intelligence officers and advisors on the way forward.
“It is a dilemma as some of these things might break his government. These are not people to joke with, he is trying to figure out the best way possible,” a source said.