National Youth Service (NYS) probe turns to Sh6.3b paid through 28 banks

National Assembly Public Accounts Committee when businesswoman Josephine Kabura appeared on NYS tenders at Parliament. Investigators into the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal have now trained their sights on transactions worth Sh6.3 billion made through 28 financial institutions. (PHOTO: BONIFACE OKENDO/ STANDARD)

Investigators into the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal have now trained their sights on transactions worth Sh6.3 billion made through 28 financial institutions as they seek to unmask the faces behind 40 companies paid from the State agency’s funds.

Documents provided to the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee, which has been probing the matter, and subsequently availed to the Director of Criminal Investigations and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), has raised to Sh6,323,743,655 funds which were transacted through the 28 commercial banks.