Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs cabinet secretary Margaret Kobia when she appeared before parliamentary Labour and Social Welfare Committee on the claims that the National Youth Service could have lost Sh8.8 billion in a fresh scandal/FILE
The Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs has allayed fears that operations at the NYS have
stalled due to ongoing investigation into loss of Sh9 billion at agency.
CS Margaret Kobia in a statement on Sunday said activities at NYS camps are continuing as usual.
She said the National Youth Service has a capable and competent team to ensure that there is no disruption.
A number of officials are in custody amid probe into the missing billions.
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Kobia said that there are adequate provisions for the upkeep and training of the over
60,000 personnel.
“NYS is a huge institution with a combined population of almost 60,000 personnel. We have about 10,842 Servicemen/women in our NYS Vocational training school, and 15,425 in TVETS which we are partnering with. Another 14,851 Servicemen and women are in various parts of the country undertaking National Service duties. In addition there are 16,671 recruits undergoing paramilitary training in Gilgil and Naivasha training facilities,” she said.
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She reiterated
that the allowances for all students have been paid as planned despite slight delays.
“The last batch of students was paid on Friday, 8 June 2018,” Kobia said.
The recruits have also enough food for Sunday, Monday and Wednesday in line with the service ratio
scale.
“Dry ration is normally given to Sunday/Monday/Wednesday when they are carrying out activities out of our camps. It is not issued on daily basis,” she said.
However, she has stated that suppliers will be paid after due diligence is carried out to ascertain the authenticity of the same. The CS also raised concern over the
water rationing in Nairobi County citing that they
have a borehole which has enough water to supplement what is supplied by Nairobi county government.
She added that On-Job-Training in Tana Basin School of Plant Mechanics and Operators, where over 2,400 servicemen and women are involved, have
adequate food and that there are no pending allowances.
“They eat fresh foods and only get dry ration on short official duty outside the station this includes all NYS units,” Kobia said.
“There is bound to be some challenges in the day to day operation from time to time. I wish to assure the parents, guardians and the general public that we have a capable team in place that handle the operations of the service competently and attends to emerging issues as and when they arise,” Kobia said.
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