Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi has said that he has refunded the excess money he received from the National Youth Service to the Central Bank of Kenya.
Mutahi while appearing before the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee said that he did not understand how the excess money was paid to him without an invoice.
He alleged that corrupt cartels at the service paid the excess money with the intention of implicating him in the scandal.
"Corrupt persons in the ministry of devolution wanted to implicate me in the scandal when I started restructuring the system hence their move to deposit excess money in my account," said Ngunyi.
According to Ngunyi, it took a year to notice the excess the payment because he confused it with money from another client who was supposed to make payment around the same time.
"I was expecting around Sh12 million from a different client and when I got a little less odd Sh11.8 million , I thought it was from the client. My decision to refund came from the realization that the money had come from the ministry of devolution," said Ngunyi.
Ngunyi was implicated in the scandal by NYS prime suspect Josephine Kabura, whom Mutahi has denied having any knowledge about her. Caption: