Inspector General Japhet Koome has vowed to ensure justice is served to victims who were allegedly swindled by First Choice Recruitment and Consultancy Agency that operates in Eldoret Town.
has vowed to ensure justice is served to victims who were allegedly swindled by First Choice Recruitment and Consultancy Agency that operates in Eldoret Town.
The IG on Thursday told the Senate Committee on Labour and Social Welfare that his office will closely work with the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to conclude the matter to satisfaction.
This is after the committee had accused him of dragging the investigation owhere more than 8,000 youths in Uasin Gishu County claimed to have lost millions of shillings on the promise of jobs abroad.
He said this in the presence of the agency’s boss Judy Jepchirchir, Health CS Susan Nakumicha promising to personally follow up on the matter.
There were claims that the agency was working closely with police officers to lure thousands of gullible youths and giving protection.
They have also accused businesses mogul David Langa’t of colluding and extorting money from villagers.
“I wish to tell Kenyans that DCI Amin is somebody you cannot compromise.
Therefore I want to assure the country that this matter is godance and anybody out there with intentions to steal money from our youth will not happen,” Koome said .
The victims also narrated their untold suffering in their quest for justice.
“Kindly, I need my money back. I need to take care of my mum and I want to go back to school. Time is running out; I wanted to have gotten a Masters before I turned 30 but I haven’t.
Kindly just return our money,” Lawrence Nzuki, a victim, told the Committee.
Most of the victims were promised jobs in the FIFA World Cup Qatar,Poland and some in UK.
Despite the ongoing investigations, the firm in March this year still went on to flag off another group of more than 100 youth for jobs in Poland, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Some of the youth who claim to have missed the jobs after paying money to First Choice wrote petitions to the Uasin Gishu County Assembly and the Senate seeking investigations into the matter.
They complained their parents had suffered much and some even sold land to pay First Choice for processing travel abroad.
