[A section of the NYS recruits from Kisii county who are protesting that their accounts are blocked..speaking to the media at namache town. (Photo-Victor Wanaswa)]
Bobasi constituency in Kisii county NYS recruits and suppliers have protested following allegations that their bank accounts have been blocked denying the beneficiaries their money totalling to millions of shillings.
Protesting in Nyamache town close 1,000 recruits claimed their counterparts elsewhere received the dues and wondered why they had been isolated.
One of the recruits Benard Nyakundi said that efforts to seek explanation from the head office they say proved futile after they were told that their stipends had been remitted to a local bank which denied its receipt.
“We have tried all we can to sort help from the head office in Nairobi but we were told that our money was wired to a local bank so we don’t know what to do next.” Said Benard nyakundi.
Each recruit was entitled to sh. 1,650 weekly translating to sh. 9.9 million from the national government since they were enlisted in June 2017.
The recruits also demanded to know the Sacco bank account the national government invested their statutory contributions saying it was their right to save guard their live savings.
Nyakundi also claimed some local chiefs had interfered with the bank accounts by blocking them to pave way for the opening of others operated by some individuals.
Boniface Momanyi petitioned the NYS to provide them with tools of trade as was the case elsewhere to relieve them the inconvenience of using their own and appealed to President Uhuru Kenyatta to intervene.
He accused some area NYS paying officers recently involved in a face-off with opposition protestors at Kisii town hotel, for sleeping on their job.
Alice Nyaboke,a supplier, claimed the government had not paid her for two months for feeding the recruits and alleged some individuals had closed the bank accounts through which they received the money.
She petitioned the current MP Innocent Obiri to follow up the matter since it fell under his docket.