Uasin Gishu Senator, Jackson Mandago and three others will appear before the Nakuru Law courts on Thursday, August 17, to face charges over their involvement in the alleged Canada and Finland scholarship scandal.
Mandago and the co-accused are facing at least four charges when he is accused of conspiring to steal 1.1 billion from a Kenya Commercial Bank account in Eldoret. The bank account was registered under Uasin Gishu Education Trust Fund and meant for overseas university education for students in Uasin Gishu County.
Finland scholarship scandal and Jackson Mandago charges
The Canada and Finland scholarship saga sparked massive protests in Uasin Gishu County, with the parents and hundreds of graduates affected taking to the streets to demand justice and refunds from the county government.
The Uasin Gishu senator is responsible for fathering Canada and Finland scholarship programmes while he was the governor in 2021.
Further reports from the charge sheet now indicate that the four, on different dated between March 1, 2021, and September 12, 2021, while in Uasin Gishu Cunty, with others not before the court, conspired to steal Ksh 1.1 billion from an account at Kenya Commercial Bank Eldoret branch.
Even so, President William Ruto promised a new scholarship to the affected students as the millions of shillings lost in the Canada and Finland scholarship scandal is investigated.
