He went ahead to accuse other State agencies that probed the matter of incompetence since they allegedly failed to question key people in the scandal.
Oyombra is said to have been the link between officials in various government agencies and foreign firms, including British security printing firm Smith & Ouzman. Two employees of the printing firm are already serving a jail term for bribing election officials in Kenya and Mauritania.
The company which specialises in printing security documents such as ballot papers and certificates was convicted of three counts of corruptly agreeing to make payments, contrary to section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.
The former chairman of Smith & Ouzman, Christopher John Smith, from East Sussex, was convicted on two counts of corruptly agreeing to make payments while the former sales and marketing director Nicholas Charles Smith was convicted on three counts of corruptly agreeing to make payments.
Officials of the printing firm are accused of paying Sh47 million in bribes in Kenya and another Sh10 million elsewhere in Africa.
The offences are said to have taken place between November 2006 and December 2010 and relate to transactions in Mauritania, Ghana, Somaliland and Kenya.
On Tuesday, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko said he was reviewing the EACC recommendations after receiving the file.
“The file shall be independently reviewed by my office and a decision thereon made based on the facts, evidence and the law,” the DPP said.
Tobiko said EACC has “found no evidence of criminal culpability on the part of any other official of the then Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC).”
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