Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu has cited an Eldoret-based regional authority for flouting the law that requires that not more than 30 percent of employees come from one ethnic community.
Ms Gathungu says out of the 139 staff hired at the Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA) 68 percent, or 88, are from the dominant ethnic community in the region.
Kalenjin is the dominant community in Eldoret where the KVDA has its headquarters. Ms Gathungu says in a qualified audit opinion that half of the senior management staff were from one ethnic group.
“This is contrary to section 7 (1) and (2) of the National Cohesion and Integration Act, 2008, which requires that all public establishments seek to represent the diversity of the people of Kenya in employment of staff and that no public establishment shall have more than one third of its establishment from the same ethnic community,” Ms Gathungu says.
