KRA changes policy after backlash over ethnic imbalance in hiring

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Clients seeking services at KRA headquarters, Times Tower, Nairobi on February 23, 2024.

Photo credit: Wilfred Nyangaresi | Nation Media Group

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is set to roll out a new hiring policy to reinforce diversity and inclusivity as it scrambles to make up for a mistake that saw the High Court nullify its recruitment of 1,406 revenue service assistants last year terming the exercise unconstitutional.

The taxman said it had developed a new diversity and inclusion policy in light of the March 2024 ruling by the High Court, which found that the hiring of the revenue service assistants was heavily skewed in favour of the Kikuyu and Kalenjin communities to the disadvantage of others.

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