Deputy President William Ruto has told former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru to carry her own cross over the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal.
Speaking in Tetu, Nyeri County on Saturday, Mr Ruto said: “Mahali ambapo kulitokea wizi kama ile ilitokea NYS ikiongoza na yule madam Waiguru sisi tumesema kulitokea wizi na tumepeleka watu kortini. Wale wako kule ni lazima waajibike because we are an open cabinet lakini sio watu kutuletea ukora (We admit that theft occurred at NYS, a department presided over by Anne Waiguru. We have started prosecuting the suspects and all involved must take responsibility)," he said.
On Thursday, Ms Waiguru appeared before the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that is investigating the loss of Sh791 million at the NYS.
Ms Waiguru asked the PAC members for assurances that it was not pursuing her and was only interested in the truth.
She said, by viewing live broadcasts of the committee’s proceedings, she had noticed that some members of the committee asked witnesses leading questions.
Former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru has sensationally linked an aide of Deputy President William Ruto among the beneficiaries of the loot of the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal.
In her testimony to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday, Ms Waiguru also fingered former NYS director Dr Nelson Githinji and former Finance Director at NYS Samuel Wachenje as part of a network used to steal from NYS.
She presented a graph reported to have been developed by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations showing the frequency of calls between various individuals named in the scam, but which exempted her.
In one case, Ben Gethi, one of the beneficiaries of the loot, was shown to have spoken with Farouk Kibet, a personal assistant to Deputy President William Ruto, 150 times.
Records submitted to the committee showed that Mr Kibet received Sh1 million from Mr Gethi.
Ms Waiguru also credited herself to the exposure of the inflated cost of a road in Kibera slums that was constructed under the NYS program.
She told the committee that she noticed that costs for the 3.5 kilometre road in Kibera were inflated.
She also said it was not easy for an individual official to alter documents to approve payments under the NYS program “unless you were all colluding”.
“It was a network of individuals,” she said.
The former CS said she then wrote to Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti questioning him about the inflated payments.
Uhuru is incompetent. His appointees starting with Itumbi are incompetent and until someone actually nukes us to extinction,he just might get a second term.
@gashwin, kindly arrange comprehension classes for this guy. People reading Ktalk articles will think everyone here is blonde and has an IQ equivalent to the price of a bunch of sukuma wiki.
“Mahali ambapo kulitokea wizi kama ile ilitokea NYS ikiongoza na yule madam Waiguru sisi tumesema kulitokea wizi na tumepeleka watu kortini. Wale wako kule ni lazima waajibike because we are an open cabinet lakini sio watu kutuletea ukora
[B]Deputy President William Ruto yesterday told off former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru for allegedly dragging his office into the Sh790 million NYS scam.
Speaking in Nyeri, Ruto told Waiguru that she was ultimately responsible for the loss of the money because the mess happened while she was Cabinet Secretary in the ministry under whose docket NYS falls[/B].
“Where there is theft of public resources as in the case of NYS, under the ministry led by Waiguru, we have taken action. But people should not politicise corruption just for the sake of it. Where we know theft occurred, those who are there must take responsibility,” said Ruto. “We are always open and ready for scrutiny as far as use of public funds is concerned. We have taken action against those officers who misused public resources. This is an indication we are sincere in fighting corruption. We have not protected civil servants who engage in corruption.”
But moments after, Waiguru, who appeared before the National Assembly Public Accounts Committee on Thursday to testify on the matter, fired a rebuttal.
In her statement to newsrooms, Waiguru said, “Prosecutions are based on evidence and the law — period. And the facts will not be changed by politics. I laid my facts in the PAC as was expected. The last time I checked investigations are left to independent bodies, unless he (Ruto) intends to influence the outcome.”
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000222365/dp-ruto-and-waiguru-clash-over-nys-scandal