[SIZE=7]NYS suspect lives like a king on Sh160,000 pay[/SIZE]
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[li]He attracted the attention of investigators because of his lavish lifestyle and love for finer things in life despite a gross salary of Sh161,800 a month.[/li][/ul]
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[li]DPP says detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) were closing in on the said suspect for arrest.[/li][li]If successful, his would be the latest in a string of arrests involving senior public officials and business persons suspected to have engineered and executed the theft of Sh8 billion from the NYS.[/li][/ul]
Bernard Masiga Ayienga is the latest star suspect in the ongoing National Youth Service (NYS) mega theft investigations to keep detectives on a whole day’s chase.
Mr Ayienga, a senior finance officer at the Public Service ministry – under whose scope the NYS operates – has attracted the attention of investigators because of his lavish lifestyle and love for finer things in life despite remaining in employment for a gross salary of Sh161,800 a month.
The besieged officer last month unsuccessfully sought to preempt arrest with application for an anticipatory bail.
Yesterday, the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji said detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) were closing in on the said suspect for arrest.
“The DCI have told us they are looking for him for arrest. He’ll be arrested and prosecuted,” Mr Haji told the Business Daily.
If successful, his would be the latest in a string of arrests involving senior public officials and business persons suspected to have engineered and executed the theft of Sh8 billion from the NYS.
It has also emerged that Mr Ayienga sought the anticipatory bail despite his name not being on the initial list of suspects that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) had published.
“He knew what he did. Investigations show he was involved,” said the DPP, adding that those convicted will suffer asset seizures besides jail terms.
Social media brag
Mr Ayienga’s social media wall paints a picture of a man who knows no want, at least where money is concerned.
Well-travelled and in possession of palatial homes in Nairobi and his village in Busia, the senior official is a man who has been living large. Perhaps too large for his remuneration in the civil service.
Senior finance officers are placed in Job Group P with a gross salary of between Sh133,940 and Sh161,800 per month, including allowances.
But the modest remuneration has not prevented Mr Ayienga from taking lavish holidays in India, London, Canada, Malaysia, Washington, DC and South Africa and splashing it for everyone to see on his social media platforms.
In one of his Facebook posts, Mr Ayienga is seen snorkelling at the beach in Zanzibar, along with his wife. Yet in another, he is seen outside a farm house in Canada besides touring Egypt, where photos posted on Facebook show him posing on camel back in front of the famous pyramids.
His Facebook page is awash with pictures of posh houses, including a multi-million shilling village bungalow, whose caption reads “Ikulu (palace) in the village.”
A picture of the home has a majestic Prado in a compound with well-manicured lawns.
He then proceeds to respond to an awe-struck friend that he built the village house to avoid being labelled a wealthy city dweller, who had nothing to show back home.
The bungalow, by all accounts, is a bold statement of opulence and is among the properties thought to have attracted the attention of detectives toward him.
Taxman need to be deployed asap. In the developed world only pop stars and other media personality exhibits a flashy lifestyle.
Jamaa wa deals huwa undercover kiasi, knowing very well the taxman might pounce anytime.
This is really, really terrible. Don’t these fools have a conscience?
And you have people here wanatetea these suspects, ati they have “constitutional rights” Which rights na wanakojolea hiyo constitution with massive plunder?
If it was upto to me these thieves would be rounded up, taken to Kasarani stadium and executed on live TV. Nonsense.
The other day I heard my father joke that someone with new money can’t have a conscience…it’s only poor people who have it…at least in the kenyan context.
Dude is a typical luhyia …pesa ilimuasha sana he had to display it for all to see…behaves like a teenager yet he looks like a grandpa…