Officers from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) have been called to join the ongoing probe into Deputy President William Ruto's assassination plot claims.
The matter has been in the hands of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for the last two weeks after Ruto claimed that some top state officers have been meeting to plot his elimination.
The spies now join DCI's Cyber Crime officers who have been investigating a letter purportedly written by a member of the Cabinet to President Uhuru Kenyatta with the details of the plot.
The NIS officers will be handling the part of investigations involving conducting a background probe into the claims which also involve four Cabinet Secretaries from Mt Kenya region.
“We are hoping that the NIS can now provide us with the missing link as we wait for the FBI to get us the identity of the authors,” an officer told the Saturday Standard.
This comes a week after DCI included the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) in the case, in a bid to establish the persons who might have authored the letter which has since been found to be fake.
It has been established that the NIS has been to some extent working with the DCI, and is the one that proposed the arrest of State House Digital Communication Director Dennis Itumbi.
Itumbi is being held as a suspect on grounds that he posted the letter on social media. Police are now working around the clock to establish whether or not he authored it.
They are also planning if or not they will question members of a WhatsApp group dubbed 'Tanga Tanga' where he posted the letter, after being exposed by a colleague named Sam who is being sought by police.