Emerging details indicate that Kenyans might not see Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula being grilled over the Sh400 million fake gold scandal any time soon.
Initial reports indicated that Wetangula had been summoned over the same and was to shed light on the saga with detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations on Wednesday.
However, he never visited the DCI headquarters and was instead at his Ford Kenya party headquarters in Nairobi, where he pointed out that there was no such summon.
“I am not aware of what you are talking about, it is a non-issue to me and I don’t want to engage in it,” he was quoted by the People Daily which now reports that the probe on the Senator has stalled for now.
According to the paper, DCI detectives are still conducting a forensic analysis on the voice to ascertain if he is indeed the man in a leaked phone conversation, calming down Dubai gold trader Ali Zandi.
The paper adds that DCI officers have since collected payment slips, bank transactions proofs and invoices from the Dubai royal family which was the customer in the trade.
However, it is yet to receive a complaint from the complainant, which makes it hard to pursue the case and has already run out of the one-week timeframe given by the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji.
Ironically, a voice forensic analysis should take only about 30 minutes.
In the clip, the man thought to be Wetangula is heard dragging President Uhuru Kenyatta, opposition leader Raila Odinga and Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi into the saga.