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Another scam as parents, youth narrate 'overseas jobs' ordeal

First Choice Recruitment and Consultancy CEO, Judy Jepchirchir. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Emotional parents and their children narrated their ordeal in a botched overseas job initiative, which has since faced headwinds.

The jobs programme is the second suspicious initiative after the Uasin Gishu Finland saga. On Thursday, parents told of how they lost huge amounts of money to a recruitment agency - First Choice Recruitment and Consultancy, which allegedly collected millions of shillings to connect youth to jobs in Qatar.

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