Government Moves to Restore Supplies in NYS on Difficulty :: Kenya

The government has proposed to restore supplies to the National Youth Service in Difficulty (NYS) while eliminating unscrupulous contracts.

In a daily newspaper notice, NYS invited suppliers and service providers to re-register to provide goods and services between 2018 and 2020.

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According to the notice, current suppliers are also required to apply again for review.

"Suppliers are now required to download registration documents from the Treasury's website and submit their applications with mandatory qualification documents. All applications must have been received at the institution by the July 29, 2018, "says the notice.

It comes after the cancellation of an earlier list of suppliers ordered last week by the secretary of the Cabinet of the Ministry of Public Service of Youth and Gender Affairs, Margaret Kobia.

Following the cancellation, sources said the institution was facing a huge challenge in feeding the NYS military and women after some vendors stopped deliveries.

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"Some of us who have done business with NYS have not been paid for four years, we feel bad when we read that people have been paid millions to provide nothing" , said a supplier. retaliation.

Senior officers plead

Another vendor said that some senior NYS officials had pleaded with food suppliers that they would continue to deliver, promising that they would ensure that business people were paid.

However, the suppliers promised not to make deliveries until they had paid all that was owed to them.

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Prof Kobia Promised Major Changes at NYS When She Introduced a New General Manager Matilda Sakwa, and a New Team of Purchasing Managers at the Institution Last Week .

"The Department undertook an in-depth evaluation of the NYS systems, policies, procedures and practices and is currently satisfactorily addressing them.The nature of management at NYS requires a strategy to several components, impartial and sustained, "said Kobia.

The CS then stopped bill payments pending an amount of 5.6 billion shillings for supplies delivered to NYS last year, a decision that would have compounded the problems to which the service was confronted.

The decision to freeze payments intensified the crisis that was brewing after suppliers, afraid of not being paid, stopped delivering goods.

Three weeks ago, the SC denied allegations that NYS operations were at a standstill.

In a statement, CS Kobia said that more than 10,000 military personnel were still at New York State's vocational training school, while another 14,000 were active in various parts of the country. to badume the functions of national service.

"No operation has stopped in any of our NYS campuses," reads part of the statement.

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Paid Soldiers

Kobia also denied reports that NYS soldiers and women had not been paid.

"The last batch of students was paid on Friday, June 8, 2018," she said.

The SC stated that the payment of the suppliers would be done after due diligence was performed.