Another NYS scam case collapses as former PS, 21 others freed
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Former Devolution Ministry Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti (right) and other accused persons in the theft of Sh791 million from the National Youth Service appear before the Anti-Corruption Court in Nairobi on November 25, 2016.
Appellate court judges Jamila Mohammed, Francis Tuiyott and Pauline Nyamweya further faulted the High Court for lumping all the accused persons together and placing them on their defence without showing the irregularities played by each of them.
The 23 persons, one of them has since died, had been acquitted by the trial court in January 2018, but the prosecution appealed against the decision and High Court judge Esther Maina overturned the ruling and ordered each of the accused persons to be placed on their defence.
Former PS Peter Mangiti and ex-senior officials in the Ministry of Devolution have been freed after battling in court for almost a decade over alleged procurement irregularities for training materials for the National Youth Service (NYS).
Quashing the charges against Mr Mangiti, 22 former officials of the ministerial tender committee and directors of the company that won the Sh47.6 million tender, the Court of Appeal said there was insufficient evidence to put them on their defence.
