The findings, outlined
in the PSC's annual report on the Status of Compliance with Constitution
Principles for the Financial Year 2022/2023, focused on recruitment across 47
public offices.
The report highlighted
the prevalence of certain communities in public service, with the Mt Kenya
communities securing the second-highest representation at 19%, followed by the
Nyanza communities 12.4%, and then Western Kenya communities at 9.6%, and the
Ukambani communities at 9%.
Ukambani communities
also featured prominently holding 9.6 while the Gusii and Maasai communities
accounted for 6.2% and 2.6%, respectively.
Other communities
gobbling up a huge percentage of public jobs include those from Taita
Taveta at 2.3% and the Mijikenda at 2.1%.
The report points out that 1,193
officers were recruited non-competitively by 47 organizations,
representing a 9% rate.
From this number, 250
civil servants, representing 17.3% of the number were appointed as
personal staff in the office of the Deputy President and advisers to Cabinet
Secretaries who were not subjected to competitive recruitment.
As outlined in the
report, the main reasons given by government organizations for the
non-competitive appointments included the conversion of temporary appointments
to permanent & pensionable terms (35%) and direct (internal) appointments
(22.4%).
Other reasons outlined
in the report include; the representation of PWDs in the organisation (Kenyatta
University) (2%); absorption of casual staff to permanent & pensionable
terms (8.2%); and appointment of casual staff (8.1%)
“The highest number of
officers recruited non-competitively were drawn from State Corporations
and SAGAs with 466 (27.7%) of the total, followed by Ministries and State
Departments with 290 (23.4%) officers,” the report read in part.
The Kenyan DAILY
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