KWS On Spot As one Tribe Dominates Recruitment, over Looking other Regions.
KWS On Spot As one Tribe Dominates Recruitment, over Looking other Regions: Recruitment of cadets and rangers into the The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) maybe cancelled over claims of partialism and overlooking other regions.
According to documents presented to parliament by KWS Director General Erustus Kanga show that Kenyans from the Kalenjin community dominate the workforce with 16.15 percent (745 of the current 4,612 employees), followed by Kikuyu with 15.52 percent (716), Kamba with 9.15 percent (422), Luo with 8.76 percent (404) and Luhya with 7.29 percent (336).
The documents further reveal that the ongoing recruitment drive targets 1,500 officers comprising 1,350 rangers and 150 cadets (assistant wardens).
While Reading the document, the National Assembly Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity raised alarm that the recruitment process will leave out other Kenyans and further questioned the criteria behind the recruitment at the county level instead of the sub-county level
Mandera West MP Yusuf Haji, who chairs the committee, argued that the decision will lock out many individuals who “cannot afford the bus fare to travel all the way to their county head-quarters to participate.”
“What exactly necessitated KWS to undertake the recruitment of cadets and rangers at the county level and not at the sub-county level given that the other uni-formed agencies have been doing theirs from the sub-county level?” posed Mr Haji.
On his part, Nyeri Town Member of Parliament Duncan Mathenge accused KWS officials of “sitting at the headquarters along the city’s Lang’ata Road and assigned counties the slots.”
“For instance, out of the eight sub-counties in Nyeri, KWS recruited only one woman,” said Mr Mathenge.
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