NYS Rocked By Fresh KSh 106 Million Scandal

Fresh details have emerged on the tendering scandal at the National Youth Service (NYS) where reportedly an additional KSh 106 million was lost in unclear procurement procedure. 
This is after Planning and Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru invited the Criminal Investigations Department to probe loss of Ksh.791
It has now emerged that KSh 106 million was paid to three companies belonging to one Josephine Kabura, the lady at the centre of KSh 791 million scandal.
The three companies under Kabura’s directorship are Gilnak General Supplies, Mindful Learning Equipment and Gilgrains General Supplies, The Star newspaper reports. 
This now brings to KSh 897 million the amount of money that  the NYS lost through dubious tendering.

The Anti-Banking Fraud Unit boss Joseph Mugwanja has now recommended fresh investigations into the payment of the Sh106 million. 

“I have never been contacted, interrogated and requested to write any statement on the KSh 791,385,000, despite the Anti Banking Fraud Unit arresting, detaining me for over 48 hours and taking my statement on other unrelated issues,” Kabura said in an affidavit she filed at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi. 

The affidavit filed on Monday November 2, 2015 was a reply to  investigator corporal Jeremiah Matipei who had said Form Homes Builders, Reinforced Concrete Technologies Limited, Roof and All Trading Company received a total of KSh 791 million between December 2014 and March 2015.

She is the registered director of the companies.

This revelation is likely set to rekindle calls for the suspension of Waiguru who has been in the eye of the storm with Parliamentarians moving a motion to suspend her, but failed for lack of numbers. 
The new details of the investigations also contradicts with the earlier names that Waiguru had issued where she listed 22 senior employees in her ministry to have been involved in the loss of the money.
The KSh 791 million scandal came to the fore in June 2015 after the government’s pay system detected fraud in the purchase of goods and services for the NYS.
The government has listed a number of recipients of the money who came under suspicion by the Central Bank of Kenya.
They had used fictitious names such as ‘Ms Thing of Desire’ who was paid KSh 37.5 million for the supply of rice.

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