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Sharp differences have emerged in a parliamentary committee over plans to bar key suspects in the National Youth Service scandal from holding public office.
Bitter exchanges that almost degenerated into fist-fights characterised proceedings of the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as members differed over far-reaching recommendations in the NYS report. Among the recommendations is that former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru be barred from holding public office. She is also to be surcharged for the alleged loss of the money in the NYS scam, which according to committee estimates runs into billions of shillings.
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