More than 20 staff at the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) were arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Police today morning.
The staff- a majority of them drawn from the registration and licensing department were picked for questioning after they failed to give sufficient details on how the vehicle that was used in the Dusit D2 attack was registered.
They include NTSA ICT manager and the Director of Registration and licensing.
They were taken to the ATPU headquarters for questioning.
A detective who was part of the raid told Hot News that one officer from the procurement department who sent the registration number of the vehicle for manufacture to the prisons was to be arraigned in court on Wednesday afternoon.
“He was to be taken to court in the morning. But there were some technicalities and he will be taken this afternoon,” said the ATPU sleuth who requested anonymity.
Earlier in the morning, detectives raided the NTSA offices.
An officer who was part of the team told Hot News on condition of anonymity that the raid was necessitated after it emerged that due process was not followed while registering the car that was used in the Dusit attack in Riverside on January 15.
The detective said investigations had shown that the car registration number KCN 340E was among 17 other vehicles that had wrongly been registered.
According to the detectives, they raided the ICT offices, NTSA director’s general Francis Mejas office and carted away crucial documents including computers to help in the investigations.
“Due process was not followed. The details of the car were entered into the records by hand instead of using the system. The person registering the vehicle simply send a message to Kamiti maximum security prison and the number plate was made on the same day,” he said.
During the police preliminary investigations, police were tipped off about the Ruaraka Apartment by a neighbor who recognized the car –KCN 340E that was used to ferry the attackers to DusistD2 Complex.
According to NTSA records, the car belongs to Cynkim Investments Company Limited, whose email address is registered as daniel.mutongi@gmail.com.
The car was registered on October 13 2018.
The detectives said the other details about the car are scanty and they want to establish who paid for the cars registration and who are the shareholders and real owners of the Company.
On January, 16th, police impounded a Toyota Ractis car in Kitengela that had similar registration to the one used in the DusitD2 attack.
The car is still in police custody.