One member of the Ngirita family which is at the center of the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal on Wednesday, April 29, suffered a blow months after launching an appeal.
The High Court dismissed Phyllis Ngirita application to be allowed to withdraw money from her account.
She stated in the application that she was suffering and could no longer provide for her children including basic needs like education which she claimed had turned her son into a 'street urchin.'
In the ruling, the judge noted that her claim that she could not provide for her family was not strong enough to compel the court to allow her to withdraw the Ksh700,000 she was seeking.
“The issues raised by the petitioner are already before a competent court and there is in force an order addressing itself to the subject matter,” stated the judge.
The court also clarified that if approved, the matter would be an abuse of the court process.
In February, embattled businesswoman Phyllis Njeri Ngirita, was an emotional wreck outside the Milimani Law Courts after another application to access her bank accounts was rejected.
Between bouts of sobs, Njeri told the press at the time that her son could no longer converse in German, adding that he was slowly deteriorating into a chokoraa (street urchin).
She further claimed that all this stemmed from the fact that the boy could no longer attend Pembroke School due to an outstanding Ksh3.4 million debt.
"The young boy is no longer in school and slowly by slowly edging towards turning into a chokoraa. He can no longer speak German, he now only speaks Kiswahili, Kikuyu, and English," she explained.
She went on to plead with President Uhuru Kenyatta to step in and help her family out, which she felt was made to bear the heaviest brunt of the NYS corruption scandal.
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