THE government is reorganising operations and management at the National Youth Service for effective service.
It will align staff capacity to critical areas of NYS.
In a press statement yesterday, Youth Affairs CS Sicily Kariuki said the ministry has redeployed some high-ranking officers as one way to reform the institution.
“These changes will facilitate the proper running of the Youth Empowerment Programme, whose prompt resumption is the concern of this ministry,” she said.
The statement comes a day after the Star exclusively reported that newly appointed director general Richard Ndubai had suspended nine senior officers for “being anti-change”.
The affected officers were suspended last Thursday for 90 days in one of a number of swift drastic changes in an institution dogged by graft allegations.
Those suspended are Stephen Mutunga (Administration), Enock Luseno (commanding officer Mombasa Technical College), Nicholas Ahere (Finance) and Cleopas Kemboi, the senior deputy director of transport at NYS Headquarters.
Others are David Awori (senior deputy director commanding the Bura/Tana River projects), Chabari (senior deputy director HR), Sospeter Mabea (senior deputy director in charge of operations in Mombasa), Madam Kirigati (senior deputy director audit and inspection) and senior deputy director commanding the Engineering Institute James Momata.
The CS’s statement did not mention the suspensions.
It was also not clear whether the officers redeployed are the same ones who were suspended.
However, the statement said the redeployments had been informed by a circular from the National Treasury dated December last year.