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Court acquits suspects in Sh791m NYS case

Former National Youth Service (NYS) Director General Nelson Githinji, ex-Devolution Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti and businessman Ben Gethi have been acquitted in the Sh791 million NYS 1 scandal.

Clearing the former senior civil servants in what was termed as “NYS Season One”, Milimani chief magistrate Wendy Micheni said on Monday evening, “the prosecution failed to produce enough evidence linking them to the theft of the hundreds of millions.”

Mrs Micheni said the offences filed against the former senior NYS Officials would have been proven “if the prosecution had presented electronic evidence in their bid to pin down the suspects.”

Acquitting the three who were charged alongside other former junior staffers of NYS, the magistrate said “no prema-facie case has been established against the suspects to warrant the court to put them on their defence.”

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