Finland scholarship saga: Recruitment agency denies conning 8,000 job seekers

First Choice Recruitment and Consultancy Agency Director Judy Jepchirchir before the Senate Labour and Social Welfare Committee. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

First Choice Recruitment and Consultancy Agency has told the Senate that it did not defraud more than 8,000 youths in Uasin Gishu county of millions of shillings with a promise to offer them jobs abroad terming their transaction above board.

The Agency Director Judy Jepchirchir who appeared before the Senate Labour and Social Welfare Committee in Nairobi, Thursday, said they have deployed more than 7,000 Kenyans to various companies abroad in their four years of operation.