Kenya: NYS in the list of calls for fresh deals as continuous probe

By Ibrahim Oruko

The National Youth Service (NYS) invites providers and service providers to re-register to provide goods and services to the institution for the period between 2018/19 and 2019/20.

In a statement, the institution asked all current providers to submit a new application after the public service, Youth and Gender CS, Ms. Margaret Kobia, canceled the previous list of providers last week.

SCANDAL

she unveiled the new general manager Matilda Sakwa and a new generation of procurement managers last week

NYS is in the eye of the storm following the indictment of PS Lillian Omollo and former general manager Richard Ndubai. The institution was forced to cancel the list of suppliers after some of the companies that are the subject of an investigation into the possible loss of 9 billion shillings have had controversial dealings with the society. 19659008] While vendors have received hundreds of millions of shillings in revenue, only one of the companies being investigated has a website but does not list its management.

Other, like Firstling Supplies Limited and Flagstone Merchants, left with more than Sh1 billion each in the latest NYS scandal, remain largely anonymous operations. The records of some of the entities alleged to have been fraudulently paid $ 9 billion are incomplete or missing from the corporate register.

And, surprisingly, companies reported by the Auditor General and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission

CORRUPT OFFICIALS

According to investigators' understanding of what happened Corrupt officials created companies and then badigned them contract numbers usually badigned to contractors pre-qualified by the Department of Justice.

While the contract numbers were valid and the pre-selected firms were genuine, the fictitious companies were essentially shells created to facilitate fraud.

Using a valid contract number, an account could be opened for shell companies. Integrated financial management information system (Ifmis).

Local purchase orders (LPO) were then issued with respect to the companies the printing created that they had provided goods to NYS.

False payments have been placed in the NYS stock of pending bills.