A fresh battle in the National Youth Service has erupted over an alleged Sh2 billion embezzlement saga.

Two senior NYS officials have sued the NYS council, the Director General, the Attorney General, and Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku, claiming that their six-month suspension from the service is illegal and based on fiction.  Deputy Commandant General Nicholas Makhoha and Senior Superintendent David Mbogo were suspended after the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) moved to court on May 2, 2025, seeking to have them probed for alleged accumulation of illicit wealth amounting to Sh 510 million and Sh 510 million, respectively.

In their separate cases filed before High Court Judge Chacha Mwita, the two senior officials claimed that EACC first sensationally claimed on its X account that they had allegedly embezzled Sh2 billion.

Nevertheless, according to them, the story changed in court papers before the magistrate's court as it pegged its probe on Sh510 million.