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Unmasking the 'untouchable' Judy Jepchirchir

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

In 2010, Judy Jepchirchir, director of a controversial recruitment agency linking youth to overseas jobs in Qatar, was dealer in imported clothes in Eldoret town.

Before 2010, she left Chepnoet village in Nandi and got married in Uasin Gishu County. On Wednesday, a mitumba trader in Eldoret recalled how Jepchirchir, the director of First Choice Recruitment and Consultancy, has been on the spot for raking in Sh400 million from 10,000 youth in a botched Qatar job programme.

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