Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji has said he has enough evidence to nail 54 suspects set to be charged in court today over the Sh9 billion National Youth Service (NYS) scandal.

According to Mr Haji, his office has sealed all the loopholes that have led to the collapse of previous corruption cases in which several individuals accused of stealing billions in taxpayers’ money get acquitted for lack of evidence.

“We have sealed the loopholes to ensure it doesn’t happen again. The evidence is overwhelming in this case. We will prove to the court that no procurement took place, no goods were supplied and there was no documentation of how the money was paid out,” said Mr Haji.

He said the 54 were the first batch of suspects in the second phase of investigations into the plunder of public funds at NYS, where he said Sh468 million was paid out to 10 companies in fraudulent deals.

Appoint team To ensure that the cases are successfully prosecuted, the DPP said he would appoint a team of four special prosecutors to work with a team from other agencies in efforts to have the looted money returned to the public.

He said it would not be business as usual involving tough talk but little action against corruption, and that the public would soon see people being jailed for stealing State funds.

“We know Kenyans are tired and frustrated over the lack of conviction of those implicated in corr