Tag: NYS scandal

Ksh791 million NYS scandal case fails to proceed as magistrate cites illegibility of handwritten proceedings

Eleven suspects charged with money laundering over the Ksh791 million National Youth Service (NYS) scandal now intend to write to Chief Justice Martha Koome to intervene over the delay of their trial. When the matter came up for directions, the NYS prime suspects Josephine Kabura, Ben Gethi and nine others through their lawyers led by […]

Court orders Ann Ngirita’s arrest over NYS scandal

NYS II scandal prime suspect Ann Ngirita has been detained in prison custody after a surety withdrawn bond. The surety whose details we can’t reveal following a court order, on Tuesday, withdrew the security he had deposited in court to bail out Ann Ngirita. Milimani Anti-Corruption Magistrate Eunice Nyutu ordered the detention of Ngirita after […]

Jubilee party rejects NYS scandal suspect Anne Ngirita

Jubilee party has rejected Anne Ngirita’s request to join the party ahead of the August 9 polls. The party says she is required to first get cleared by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission(EACC), Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and Kenya Revenue Authority(KRA) to seek the party’s ticket. Ngirita, the main suspect in the infamous NYS […]

Governor Waiguru set to testify in NYS graft case

Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru is this morning Thursday expected to testify in the ksh791 NYS million case. The governor was in May directed to appear before Milimani trial magistrate Francis Andayi on August 5, 2021, to give her testimony in the case against her former Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti, former NYS Director General Nelson Githinji […]

Court declines DPP’s request to have media barred from covering Governor Waiguru’s NYS testimony

The court has dismissed an application by the DPP to have the media barred from covering the testimony of the Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru. Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi ruled that the application has no merit hence dismissed it. This comes after the DPP, through Prosecutor Jalson Makori, made an application for the trial court to […]

Ngiritas car, 5 parcels of land given to State as judge rules they are proceeds of crime

Court orders properties land and vehicles belonging to NYS suspects Phylis Ngirita, Lucy Ngirita and Jeremiah Ngirita forfeited to the State.

No, you won’t withdraw Ksh700, 000 from KCB account, court tells Phyllis Ngirita

In 2018, cash stored in bank accounts and assets worth millions of shillings belonging to Phyllis Ngirita, her sister, brother and mother were frozen by the courts after the four were implicated in the NYS corruption scandal.