Monday, April 29, 2024

PS Omollo surrenders to police as NYS boss, Anne Wambere family arrested

Public Service and Youth pernanent secretary Lillian Omollo has surrendered to the police. This comes afew hours after NYS boss Richard Ndubai was arrested.

The two had stepped aside on Friday to pave for investigations on the looting of Sh. 9 billion NYS cash.

Ms. Omollo surrendered to the DCI headquarters in Kiambu accompanied by her lawyers.

This was after DCI officers who went to her Kitisuru home where she refused to leave the house demanding the presence of her lawyers.

On Friday, the PS told the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee that the auditor general’s 2016/17 report did not flag off fraudulent transactions.

“The loss of Sh9 billion as alleged would mean that NYS is technically closed,” she told MPs.

NYS director general Richard Dubai, deputy director Sam Michuki, and senior finance managers at the agency were arrested earlier in the morning.

They were arrested together with 16others in Nairobi and four in Naivasha in dawn crackdown.

Suspects were first taken to Muthaiga, Gigiri and Central police stations but have now been transferred to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters on Kiambu Road, Nairobi awaiting processing.
Mr Ndubai and four others spent the morning at the Muthaiga Police Station.

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