Controversial blogger Robert Alai has accused the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) of alerting Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu so that he could go into hiding.
According to the outspoken blogger, the detectives should execute the arrests without making announcements in the media.
"EACC and DCI knew that announcing to Waititu on a Friday that he was going to arrest him was just to alert him so as to disappear for the weekend. This whole arrest charade is fake. Just arrest. Stop bragging in the media how you are going to arrest so-and-so," Robert Alai wrote on Twitter.
A section of the netizens also believes that Waititu went into hiding to avoid spending a weekend in jail.
Waititu together with his wife Susan Ndung’u are believed to have gone into hiding after the announcement of his arrests by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji who ordered for their arrests alongside other officials.
The suspects are being sought for their alleged engagement in an Sh588 million graft case.
Detectives from the EACC have so far arrested three suspects in connection with the case. The three include; Director Testimony Enterprises Ltd Charles Chege Mbuthia, Evaluation Committee members in Kiambu county Joyce Ng’ina Musyoka and Simon Kabocho Kang’ethe.
EACC has ordered the remaining suspects including Waititu to surrender.