NYS Scandal: PS Omollo, DG Ndubai step down

Public Service and Youth Principal Secretary Lillian Mbogo Omollo and NYS Director-General Richard Ndubai have stepped down over the latest billion-shilling scandal facing the National Youth Service.

The two are directly responsible for the functions of the NYS in the period being investigated.

In a statement sent to newsrooms, President Uhuru Kenyatta accepted the offer by the two to step aside for a period of three months to allow investigating agencies to complete their work.

“The President also expects any public official directly implicated in the investigations to uphold the code of integrity and ethics to which they are committed and to act accordingly,” read the statement from State House Spokesperson Manoah Esipisu.

The two have been implicated in the new Ksh.9 billion scandal facing the National Youth Service where 36 companies are being investigated for previous controversial dealings with the outfit.

According to the Daily Nation who broke the story, the money was allegedly siphoned from the institution in the last three years in a well-orchestrated scheme involving senior government officials and ghost suppliers.

“Investigative agencies have over the past few weeks been investigating payments at the National Youth Service (NYS), with a clear intention of ascertaining whether they were made following the correct procedures; whether they were made for services delivered; and whether there was any fraud committed in the processes,” the statement continues.

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) instituted investigations late last year and its findings reveal a trail of plundering of hard-earned taxpayers’ money.