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The National Youth Service Scandal was a corruption scandal within Kenya's Ministry of Devolution and Planning. Ksh. 791 million ($7,650,000) is said to have been stolen from the ministry's coffers, with some saying that figure could have been as high as Ksh. 1.8 billion ($17,400,000).
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- ↑ Ruto suspended over Kenya Pipeline land sale – Politics and policy. Business Daily Africa. (6 September 2001).
- ↑ "Ruto acquitted in Sh43m fraud case". Daily Nation, 12 April 2011
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