The National Youth Service is in another scandal, this time emanating from a tough conflict between the old guards and the new guys at the service.
Earlier, then Devolution CS was ejected to pave way for Principal Secretary Lilian Omollo and Director General Richard Ndubai who promised a new life.
This has not been the case.
The major siphoning pipes are believed to be the tendering networks, retention of the multi-budget as wells as the failure to remove the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) from the facility.
Other Ministries operate a single IFMIS system from where they make all payments but NYS has continued to run IFMIS independent of the parent ministry and even after losing Sh791 million from the same, they still run the system.
It is said the battle for tenders between new officials and the old ones was so intense that by the time former Youth Affairs CS Sicily Kariuki was leaving to the Health ministry, she was not in good terms with key officials at the ministry directly responsible for NYS.
Sources say that the president is already on the matter and wants it dealt with early enough instead of escalating like was the case in 2014 when Waiguru was in charge.
“The President also expects any public official directly implicated in the investigations to uphold the code of integrity and ethics to which they are committed and to act accordingly,” said a State House statement on Friday.
Surprisingly, a number of companies red-lighted in the first scandal have gone ahead to receive tenders again, with others receiving over Sh300 million.
Others were paid without any existing contract with the NYS, and one of these was paid Sh54 million six months before it was registered.
The ministry also broke the law and used restricted for construction of Huduma centres including the Kibera Huduma Centre.
This was so even after the tenders had been advertised.
Some Sh616,376,731 was lost in the process without clear explanation.
In the case of the Kibera Huduma Centre, the contractor received Sh6,398,170 for installing of fittings with neither the existence of a contract nor having done any work.
Another project in which money was siphoned was the construction of the Kenya-Somalia wall where servicemen continue to cry of not having been paid a single cent for their services.
Will the government take charge and prosecute the suspects?
Do we have a good opposition in place to put the government on toes?
The common mwananchi continues to suffer.