The audit has positioned at the least 21 public universities on the centre of the vice, which include in the hiring of top managers.
Auditor General Nancy Gathungu Stated, “In the occasions, control of the 21 universities were in breach of the law,”
According to a unmarried network is not allowed to preserve greater than 33 consistent with cent of jobs in any unmarried authorities entity.
Section 7(2) of the National Cohesion and Integration Act, 2008, offers that “no public established order shall have more than one-1/3 of its team of workers contributors from one ethnic network.”
Kenyatta University has 1,185 Kikuyus, accounting for forty two in keeping with cent of the organization’s group of workers.
“Further, management recruited sixty one staff contributors throughout the yr under overview [2022] out of which 25, or 41 per cent, were from one network whilst 36 had been from 9 communities,” the Auditor General stated.
Other referred to institutions consist of; Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kibabii, Rongo, Kirinyaga, Kisii, Dedan Kimathi and Kaimosi.
Also flagged for breach of the law are Meru, Maseno, Moi, Machakos, Garissa, Murang’a, Eldoret, Bomet, Alupe, Taita Taveta, Maasai Mara, and Turkana.
At Kibabii, Luhyas took up 75 in step with cent of the roles. Luhyas, largely the Samia, additionally ruled jobs at Alupe University. At least 38 in step with cent of group of workers have been drawn from this network.
At Taita Taveta University, Taitas maintain 37 per cent of the jobs in addition to Friends University Kaimosi in which Luhyas took up sixty seven in line with cent of the workforce.
At Maseno University, the payroll for June 2022 discovered that out of the 1,131 personnel, 721 have been Luos.
Luos additionally took up seventy three per cent of jobs at Rongo University, being 311 staffers whereas At Homa Bay’s Tom Mboya University College, the audit observed that sixty six in keeping with cent of the ninety employees were additionally Luos.
Kirinyaga University had Kikuyus at seventy one according to cent whilst Dedan Kimathi University had about sixty six in line with cent.
Gathungu additionally flagged Meru University wherein 65 in step with cent of the employees were from the dominant ethnic network.
Kisiis also ruled the body of workers of Kisii University at 70 according to cent whereas Moi University has sixty two in step with cent Kalenjins. At the University of Eldoret, 57 in keeping with cent were additionally from the Kalenjin network.
Bomet University College had Kalenjins at forty five consistent with cent while 60 according to cent of the Machakos University group of workers had been from the Kamba community.
Additional universities encompass; Garissa University, North Eastern-based totally university, JKUAT, Maasai Mara and Turkana University.
