Another scandal is rocking the troubled National Youth Service (NYS) after a video emerged of its alleged recruits breaking into a store.
In the video that surfaced online on the morning of Tuesday, May 19, the said recruits are seen attempting to break in through one of the store's windows.
The incident took place at the NYS Centre behind Mathare North Area-4.
The suspects reportedly made away with boots and uniforms from the store of the institution.
One of the recruits, dressed in official NYS uniform, is seen approaching a window secured by protruding metal bars before moving around to another window.
After a while, the four-minute clip shows another recruit jumping out of another window with uniform in tow and does not seem to be in a hurry to go leave.
The looting spree happened in broad daylight against a silent background, save for some construction sounds that intimated that activities at the facility had been running normally.
The National Youth Service has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons including the loss of billions of shillings as well as irregular hiring practices.
The service has recorded two separate accounts of corruption scandals, through which money was lost in unexplained circumstances, the first one amounting to more than Ksh790 million in 2017 and the second, in 2018, with reports saying that some Ksh10 billion taxpayers money might have vanished through thin-air.
Several suspects, the Ngirita's being the face, are still under investigation after being accused of earning millions after supplying questionable products.
These two thefts prompted Parliament, in 2018, to pass the NYS bill 2018 in an attempt to stop rampant theft at the institution.
“We are establishing a council which has never been in existence to make a stronger NYS that will deliver on its mandate as well as ensure improved governance structure in terms of its finances,” stated Public Service CS Margaret Kobia at the time.
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