NYS theft suspect Josephine Kabura at the anti-graft offices in the past. By JOHN NGIRACHU The National Youth Service scandal was worse — a lot worse — than initially thought, the auditor-general has found out. The conspiracy to defraud the Government, and the taxpayer, was much broader and targeted the theft of Sh3.5 billion released in a supplementary Budget. And the woman most closely identified with the scandal, Ms Josephine Kabura Irungu, was paid Sh1.29 billion and not Sh791 million as initially thought. In all, a total of Sh1.86 billion was lost, according to the findings of the Auditor-General, Mr Edward Ouko. Ms Kabura operated 11 companies which received the money in fraudulent circumstances. She was set to receive another Sh695.4 million from the NYS but the payment was stopped, the Auditor-General says in a report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. In most of the cases, the companies were barely two months old, had no prior dealings with NYS, were not p...