{"id":105166,"date":"2023-10-18T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/cs-ndungu-put-on-spot-for-excluding-lagdera-in-kra-recruitment"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:09:00","slug":"cs-ndungu-put-on-spot-for-excluding-lagdera-in-kra-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/cs-ndungu-put-on-spot-for-excluding-lagdera-in-kra-recruitment","title":{"rendered":"CS Ndung\u2019u put on spot for excluding Lagdera in KRA recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung\u2019u has been reprimanded for allegedly leaving out Lagdera Constituency during the recently concluded recruitment of Revenue Service Assistants by the Kenya Revenue Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Lagdera MP Abdikadir Mohamed, while making a statement on the floor of the House, said Ndung\u2019u presented an erroneous report to Parliament on the recruitment exercise.<\/p>\n<p>On September 27, 2023, the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury appeared before the House to answer various questions among them the recruitment of 1,406 Revenue Service Assistants by KRA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile responding to the question, the Cabinet Secretary was on record that the recruitment drive was conducted on merit and considered regional balance,\u201d Mohamed noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet Secretary tabled a report with details of applicants and the distribution per constituency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report tabled by the Cabinet Secretary indicated that there was no candidate from Lagdera Constituency yet seven applicants from the constituency were shortlisted and attended the interviews,\u201d Mohammed said.<\/p>\n<p>The MP listed the names of the candidates who were shortlisted and interviewed but left out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Speaker, the erroneous report by the Cabinet Secretary indicated there was no candidate from Lagdera Constituency, yet the specified candidates attended the interview thanks to a deliberate affront to Articles 27(4) and 232 (i)(ii) of the Constitution on equality and freedom from discrimination and the right to equal opportunity for appointments to positions in the public service,\u201d the MP stated.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed called on the Government, through the Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning, to establish facts about the candidature of the specified applicants.<\/p>\n<p>He said KRA should consider them on the basis of inclusivity, the need for regional balance and equal opportunity for all.<\/p>\n<p>After the recruitment, it emerged that Kalenjins formed the majority of Kenya Revenue Authority\u2019s June 2023 recruitment of Revenue Service Assistants.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions by KRA to the National Assembly\u2019s Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity showed the Kalenjin community comprised 403 of the 1,406 RSA that were recruited.<\/p>\n<p>They were followed by Kikuyu (385), Luhya (134), Luo (76), Kenyan Somali (71), Kamba (64) and Meru (55).<\/p>\n<p>Others were Kisii (43), Maasai (42), Embu (18), Borana (12), Teso (12), Mijikenda (11) and Turkana (11).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung\u2019u has been reprimanded for allegedly leaving out Lagdera Constituency during the recently concluded recruitment of Revenue Service Assistants by the Kenya Revenue Authority. Lagdera MP Abdikadir Mohamed, while making a statement on the floor of the House, said Ndung\u2019u presented an erroneous report to Parliament on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":105165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-105166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CS Ndung\u2019u put on spot for excluding Lagdera in KRA recruitment - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/cs-ndungu-put-on-spot-for-excluding-lagdera-in-kra-recruitment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CS Ndung\u2019u put on spot for excluding Lagdera in KRA recruitment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. 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