Incidentally, the five suspects are from one family and their companies had been listed among those that illegally received part of the loot of the NYS cash.
The five who included a mother and her four siblings were arrested in their palatial home in Lakeview estate in Naivasha following a raid by CID officers.
During the raid, the investigating officers confiscated three cars from the homes of the suspects and towed them to Naivasha police station as part of the investigations.
Among those arrested was Ann Wambere Ngirita who was in the news last week after she allegedly received Sh60m from NYS yet she had not delivered any goods.
Others were her mother Lucy Wambui, younger sister Njeri Ngirita, older brother Jeremiah Gichini and his wife Catherine Mwai.
Relatives watched in horror as the family was herded into two waiting police vehicles before been transferred to Nairobi waiting to be charged.
Two of the suspects were accompanied by their young babies to police cells as investigations into the mega-scandal took in its first victims.
Drama started at around 4am when the sleuths raided the homes of one of the suspect arresting him as he slept.
Later in the day, they moved to the other homes briefly holding them at Naivasha police station before whisking them to Nairobi.
According to a source who declined to be named, various companies associated with the five had received part of the NYS loot.
The officer who is not authorized to speak to the press said that the five were directors of the companies that had fraudulently received the cash.
“The five have been taken to CID headquarters in Nairobi to record their statements and we expect to charge that with various offences,” said the officer.
“The Ngirita family is among those who for years have supplied NYS Gilgil with goods mainly cereal products and vegetables,”
Some of the companies associated with the Ngirita family and which are under investigations include Ngiwaco Enterprises, Njewanga enterprises, Ngirisipa, Pamuco and Ann Wambere Wanjiku investments.
It also is emerging that six commercial banks and their executives could be forced to pay hefty fines for facilitating the NYS pay-outs.
-Anthony Gitonga