NYS procurement boss denies links to Embu Hotel in Ksh.2B EACC probe

A senior National Youth Service (NYS) employee has denied links with a hotel in Embu that was raided by the anti-graft agency detectives in a Ksh.2 billion probe. 

David Mbogo Muthee, the Head of Procurement at NYS Training School in Gilgil has written to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) accusing the agency of a smear campaign.

On Friday, EACC announced that it had conducted a raid at the Mavvel hotel allegedly linked to Mbogo, saying the operation yielded evidentiary material to support investigations into suspected conflict of interest and abuse of office involving senior NYS officials.

Through his lawyer Onuong’a Makori, Mbogo has denied interest in the Hotel and accused the commission of harassment and continuing to make persistent, erroneous and highly prejudicial statements against him, having made similar claims in 2025

“These assertions, as we shall demonstrate, are false, misleading, and made in reckless disregard of facts already within your possession,” the letter reads in part.

It adds; “We state at the outset that the conduct of the commission, taken cumulatively and over time, amounts to a deliberate and sustained pattern of harassment, misrepresentation, and abuse of investigative powers.”

Mbogo wants EACC to withdraw the statement, desist from further misrepresentation and offer him an apology within seven days.

The lawyer has accused EACC of unlawfully targeting Mbogo, questioning why the State agency applied for a parallel search warrant from a Nyeri court when the matter was pending at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi where a similar warrant had been lifted.

“Warrants were obtained from the Magistrates Court at Milimani (Criminal) with the alleged offences forming the basis of your investigations stated to have occurred between January 2017 and March 2025, a period during which our client was, as stated above, not in office and had no control, authority or involvement whatsoever,” Makori states.

He says Mbogo is being investigated for a period when he was not involved in procurement processes and that his predecessor had recorded statements with EACC on the tendering process. 

The lawyer says Mbogo served as Head of Supply Chain Management at the National Youth Service for 21 days from April 17, 2025 to May 7, 2025.