Kirinyaga and Nandi county have been ranked as the top counties that are tribal in job giving job opportunities to only people from their county, tribe.
This was according to a report released on October 3 by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) on public institutions.
The report indicated that most county governments have failed to adhere to the NCIC Act and County Governments Act that requires them not to employ more than two-thirds of their staff from one ethnic community.
Francis ole Kaparo, NCIC chair who spoke during the report released noted that, of the 185 state corporations surveyed only 129 complied with the NCIC Act.
The audit further singles out 15 counties out of the 47 as the only ones that adhered to County Governments Act. According to the findings, they have recruited at least thirty percent of their employees from the non-dominant ethnic groups in their regions.
Largest communities in the country according to the report are over-represented in the majority of corporations. Kaparo blamed politicians for interfering with employment processes in public institutions as he urged them to stop.
The commission recommended that each public establishment should develop its own inclusive employment policy following the model laid by the Public Service Commission’s Diversity Policy 2016.
“We have 34 county assemblies which have employed more than 70 per cent from one dominant ethnic group in the county.
“Two county assemblies—Kirinyaga and Nandi—have recruited only one ethnic group each in the entire workforce,” said Kaparo when he released the study findings at NCIC headquarters yesterday.
“Kenyans are good at making good laws and we (Kenyans) are even better at breaking them with impunity. We tell those who employ ‘shame on you!’” he added.
“As a commission we don’t want to be crybabies all the time. It’s time for action and we will give specific timelines for compliance and levy penalties to counties that fail to comply,” he warned.
“We want NCIC given powers to oversee the recruitment in all public institutions so that all Kenyans can get equal opportunity to serve the country.
For now we can only name and shame since the law is not on our side,” said Kaparo.