The National Super Alliance (NASA) on Tuesday revealed that it is collecting information that will nail the 'big fish' in the National Youth Service (NYS) Ksh9 billion scandal.
The coalition's Executive Officer Norman Magaya maintained that the opposition was suspicious the actual beneficiaries of the scandal were not nabbed in the ongoing sweep by security services.
Notably, from the ongoing investigations is the omission of high profile public officials, bank managers, a cabinet secretary and directors of some companies that were allegedly paid in excess of Ksh1 billion in the latest scandal to rock the Youth Service.
Missing from the list of those questioned or arrested is Sicily Kariuki, who was the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Gender and Youth when the suspected theft took place.
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"It is sad that the CS who was in charge of the ministry is not being held accountable. The DPP and the DCI should stop playing games with us and take action on the real culprits," Magaya told Kenyans.co.ke on Tuesday.
"The President and his deputy should also stop acting like they were not aware that billions of monies were missing from one Ministry. This money was stolen during the election period by politicians known to the two," he added.
Public Accounts Committee of Parliament in 2006 demanded that ministers take political responsibility for the actions of officers under their supervision and were required to step aside when a scandal in their ministries is unearthed.
The government seems to have softened the integrity standards, indicating that only those who were “directly implicated” in the NYS investigations will be required to leave office, according to a statement issued on May 18.
The reason she is not facing the same pressure that saw Governor Anne Waiguru quit during the Ksh791 million scandal at NYS is not clear.
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Another cloud hanging over the investigations is how institutions charged with preventing economic crimes such as the Treasury, Central Bank, the Financial Reporting Centre and commercial banks.
The institutions were supposed to detect and flag the payments from the NYS which were being transferred via electronic means as is required, only to be withdrawn in cash in millions of shillings hours later.
