CONTROVERSY has rocked the
National Youth Service yet again, after newly appointed Director General
Richard Ndubai suspended nine senior officers for “being anti-change”,
only a week after taking office.
The officers were swept aside in a wave of far-reaching changes, even as it emerged that NYS Deputy Director General Sam Michuki had promoted himself to the non-recognized title of Senior Deputy Director General.
According to insiders who spoke to the Star, the position has never been gazetted and therefore does not exist within NYS ranks.
The affected officers, all of the rank of Senior Deputy Director, were suspended last Thursday for a period of 90 days in one of a number of swift drastic changes in an institution dogged by massive corruption allegations.
Those shown the door include Stephen Mutunga (Administration), Enock Luseno (commanding officer Mombasa Technical College), Nicholas Ahere (Finance) and Cleopas Kemboi, senior deputy Director in charge of Transport at NYS Headquarters.
Others are David Awori (Senior deputy Director commanding the Bura/Tana River projects), Chabari (senior Deputy director HR), Sospeter Mabea (Senior deputy Director in charge of operations in Mombasa), Madam Kirigati (senior Deputy director audit and inspection) and senior deputy Director commanding the Engineering Institute Jame Momata.
With the exit of the nine senior officers responsible for overseeing the administrative functions of the institution, Ndubai is now left with only two senior deputy Directors, given that James Ounde, a senior officer of the same rank, is on terminal leave pending retirement.
It was unclear how the senior officers were suspended before they even met their new boss, amid concerns that the changes could bog down expected reforms at the Ruaraka-based institution.
This is because there could be serious transitional challenges due to loss of institutional memory after Claire Lwali, who stepped in after the resignation of Nelson Githinji,
The officers were swept aside in a wave of far-reaching changes, even as it emerged that NYS Deputy Director General Sam Michuki had promoted himself to the non-recognized title of Senior Deputy Director General.
According to insiders who spoke to the Star, the position has never been gazetted and therefore does not exist within NYS ranks.
The affected officers, all of the rank of Senior Deputy Director, were suspended last Thursday for a period of 90 days in one of a number of swift drastic changes in an institution dogged by massive corruption allegations.
Those shown the door include Stephen Mutunga (Administration), Enock Luseno (commanding officer Mombasa Technical College), Nicholas Ahere (Finance) and Cleopas Kemboi, senior deputy Director in charge of Transport at NYS Headquarters.
Others are David Awori (Senior deputy Director commanding the Bura/Tana River projects), Chabari (senior Deputy director HR), Sospeter Mabea (Senior deputy Director in charge of operations in Mombasa), Madam Kirigati (senior Deputy director audit and inspection) and senior deputy Director commanding the Engineering Institute Jame Momata.
With the exit of the nine senior officers responsible for overseeing the administrative functions of the institution, Ndubai is now left with only two senior deputy Directors, given that James Ounde, a senior officer of the same rank, is on terminal leave pending retirement.
It was unclear how the senior officers were suspended before they even met their new boss, amid concerns that the changes could bog down expected reforms at the Ruaraka-based institution.
This is because there could be serious transitional challenges due to loss of institutional memory after Claire Lwali, who stepped in after the resignation of Nelson Githinji,
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