A section of Ruaka town residents have questioned the credibility of the investigations conducted by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission in regard to the alleged theft of Sh791 million at the National Youth Service.
The residents are accusing the commission of conducting shoddy investigations into the loss of the NYS millions and want the officers who led the investigations to step aside.
The locals wondered how the commission could carry out shoddy investigations and hurriedly cleared some of the people who had been suspected to have been involved in the scandal.
“The EACC should explain to Kenyans on how they carried out investigations and cleared some suspects in the NYS saga,” said Geoffrey Kinuthia a bodaboda operator.
Mr Kinuthia said that the integrity of EACC will be questioned over the NYS saga.
“Independent offices set by the Constitution should not take things for granted but do their work diligently,” he stated.
Caroline Maina, a student in Ruaka said that EACC needs to take its work seriously or else Kenyans would lose faith in it.
"The EACC needs to win the trust of Kenyans by ensuring that its investigations are done in a professional manner," she said.
On Tuesday the EACC said that it will open fresh probe into the alleged theft of Sh791 million at the NYS.
This after one of the major suspects in the scandal said that former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru who had been cleared by EACC was allegedly a mastermind in the saga.
In a sworn affidavit, business woman Josephine Kaburu alleged that the former CS knew about everything that was going on in relation to the NYS scandal.
In the affidavit, the business woman mentions other individuals including journalists.
On Tuesday through her twitter handle, Waiguru denied the new revelations saying that she had never met Kaburu.
Waiguru termed the new revelations as a smear campaign aimed at tarnishing her reputation.
Several Members of Parliament including Nandi Hills Alfred Keter have called for resignation of EACC investigators who handle the NYS saga accusing them of hiding the truth.
Already several individuals implicated in the NYS saga have been charged in court.