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Prison jobs up for sale: How parents were defrauded millions in Kenya Prisons bribery scam

By James Wanzala | 1w ago

Hundreds of youths turned up for the Kenya Prisons Services officers' recruitment in the newly established Usigu sub-county but were turned away due to lack of required documents. [Isaiah Gwengi, Standard].

It has emerged that Kenyans were conned out of millions of shillings during the recent recruitment of cadet officers, technicians, artisans and prison constables by the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS).

The revelation came after an X user named Wanjiru, on Thursday, posted a complaint from a parent who lost Sh250,000 in the process but did not secure the job.

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