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The burning questions as storm over corruption rises

Devolution and Planning PS Peter Mangiti (left), National Youth Service Director General Nelson Githinji and Deputy Director General Clare Lwale (right) during their meeting with National Assembly Public Accounts Committee yesterday. [PHOTO: BONIFACE OKENDO/Standard]

Top officials of the Ministry of Planning and Devolution were yesterday thrown out of a parliamentary committee sitting following revelations of fresh wastage and misuse of public funds at a ministry already gripped by unanswered questions regarding a Sh791 million scandal.

Planning Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti and at least 30 ministry officials including the Director General of the National Youth Service, Nelson Githinji, were told to leave the committee meeting to go and get figures to explain the spending of Sh8 billion on ministry assets.

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