Tag: NYS

3 newly created Sub-counties listed for NYS recruitment

Three newly created Sub-counties in Tharaka Nithi County are among the six Sub-counties listed for the recruitment of volunteer National Youth Service (NYS) servicemen and women. The recruitment which is scheduled to take place between Monday, 29 August 2022 and Saturday 3, September 2022 will now include Chiakariga, Igambang’ombe and Muthambi Sub-counties – newly created […]

High Court overturns decision to acquit former Devolution PS, 22 others implicated in NYS graft

The High Court has overturned a lower court decision to acquit former Devolution and Planning Permanent Secretary Peter Mangiti and 22 former senior NYS staffers over the Ksh47.6 million graft case. In a judgement delivered by Justice Esther Maina of the High Court Anti-Corruption division, she set aside a lower court decision and ordered Mangiti […]

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 […]

DCI clears Kalonzo of NYS land-grabbing allegations

Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has been cleared from allegations of grabbing National Youth Service (NYS) land. According to Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti, the Former Vice President acquired the land which his rural Yatta home sits on legally. Kinoti established that the land, owned by Kalonzo’s company PASTEV Holdings Limited, was procedurally […]

Employment for street kids as Xtian Dela unveils manifesto ahead of 2022 polls

A month after vlogger Xtian Dela declared his bid for the Westlands constituency Parliamentary seat, the video producer turned politician has released his security manifesto. While sharing news of his entrance into the murky waters of politics, Dela claimed that the youth in the country were tired of old politicians and it was time for […]

How Assets Recovery Agency has turned the Ngiritas, other graft suspects into beggars

ARA seems to be the new sheriff in town and is sending shivers down the spines of suspected graft lords more than the dreaded EACC and DCI.