Judy Jepchirchir Accused Of Defrauding Kenyans KSh 400m In Fake Qatar Jobs Breaks Down Programme Costs

• First Choice Recruitment and Consulting Agency director Judy Jepchirchir admitted failing to take people to Qatar for jobs
• This followed complaints by 10,000 youths from Uasin Gishu and Nandi Counties that the agency defrauded them over KSh 400 million in the overseas job programme
• Jepchirchir shared how the money received was spent, saying most people changed their contract while others are due for a refund

Judy Jepchirchir, director of First Choice Recruitment and Consulting Agency, is linked to a dubious overseas job programme defrauding over 10,000 youth in Uasin Gishu and Nandi Counties.

The 36-year-old revealed she started the business in 2018, recruiting over 7,000 people in Qatar, Dubai, Poland, and the UK.

Jepchirchir was accused of failing to send all 2,011 job seekers to Qatar for work during the 2022 World Cup.

How Judy Jepchirchir used the money

The businesswoman said the applicants on a short-term contract paid a KSh 10,000 medical fee (non-refundable) and a KSh 30,000 service charge.

She argued that 827 people were sent to Qatar for a period between two months and four months.

The remaining 1,184 failed to make it to the programme due to factors related to the high influx of people and medical status.

From the remaining number, 600 people changed their contract to a two-year term of between KSh 50,000 to KSh 150,000.

Jepchirchir noted another 106 applicants gave out their chances to their relatives, claiming to have refunded 448 individuals.

"We did not take everyone to Qatar, but we will ensure justice is served. 89 people are due for refunds, and we are working to ensure they receive their money by the end of August 2023," said Jepchirchir, as quoted by Daily Nation.

Finland scholarship scandal

This came as a section of victims of the Uasin Gishu Overseas Scholarship Programme vowed to hold daily demonstrations in Eldoret town beginning next week.

The students, who were accompanied by their parents, said they would camp in the streets of Eldoret until the county government refunded their money.

Some of the students said that they made their payments to the county when the new governor was in office.