NYS Scandal Suspect Anne Ngirita Spends a Month at Lang’ata Women’s Prison

National Youth Service (NYS) scandal suspect Anne Ngirita has spent a month at Lang’ata Women’s Prison.

Citizen Digital reports that Ngirita has been unable to get a surety to secure her release from prison as directed by a Nairobi court last month.

Anti-corruption court Magistrate Eunice Kagure on February 22nd ordered her detention after the surety who had stood bond for her withdrew.

The man only identified as Stephen withdrew his property which had previously been listed as Ngirita’s surety.

While granting a request by the surety to be allowed to withdraw the security, the magistrate noted that acting as someone’s surety is a voluntary decision, hence Stephen cannot be forced to continue staying on for Ngirita.

Ngirita, who had been out on bond since 2018, will attend court from prison until she secures an alternative surety or cash bail.

In the NYS case, she is charged alongside her sister Phyllis Ngirita, brother Jeremiah Gichini Ngirita, their mother Lucy Wambui Ngirita, and over 30 other suspects.

Before her detection, Ngirita had declared interest in the Nakuru woman representative seat after decamping to Jubilee Party from Deputy President William Ruto-led United Democratic Alliance (UDA).

On Monday, the hearing of the Sh226 million NYS scandal case was postponed after the court was informed that one of the suspects Evans Kundu had fallen ill. 

Kundu, a former mechanical and transport director at NYS, is among 37 suspects charged with conspiracy to defraud the youth agency of millions of shillings in 2018. He is alleged to have conspired with his two brothers to register companies that were awarded Sh17 million tenders and paid by NYS without without supplying anything.

Court documents show Kundu used the proceeds to purchase properties and registered them in the names of his wife and daughter to conceal the scheme.