The audit will determine the fate of director- general Francis Wangusi who was last week sent on a three-month compulsory leave.
Under the terms of reference stipulated by the CA, the consultant will be expected to review staff recruitment, promotions and remuneration as well as training carried out over the past three financial years.
The aim of the review will be to verify whether hiring and promotion are within compliance standards and to see if the CA is operating with an optimal employment base.
The communications regulator is set to hire a firm to investigate employment and staff promotions at the State agency over the past three years.
The audit will determine the fate of director- general Francis Wangusi who was last week sent on a three-month compulsory leave, Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) board member Christopher Guyo Huka said in an interview on Monday.
Mr Huka chaired the board meeting that resolved to send Mr Wangusi home.
The board holds that the director-general had been the ultimate decision-maker in all recruitment processes, and therefore had to step aside to allow for an independent review.
The CA has already advertised a tender for a consultant to review its human resource processes. Tender applications are due by January 31 and the regulator expects that the audit will take up to eight weeks.
“We don’t want interference in the appointment of that consultant… we want that independence,” said Mr Huka, explaining why Mr Wangusi was sent home. He, however, insists that this is not an investigation of any wrongdoing on the part of Mr Wangusi and that the board has no reason to suspect irregular hiring.
It was not immediately clear why other senior officials at the CA, who arguably may also have influenced past hiring decisions, have not been similarly sent home to assure independence in the review.
Mr Wangusi did not respond to multiple calls from the Business Daily for comment on this story on Monday.
Under the terms of reference stipulated by the CA, the consultant will be expected to review staff recruitment, promotions and remuneration as well as training carried out over the past three financial years.
The aim of the review will be to verify whether hiring and promotion are within compliance standards and to see if the CA is operating with an optimal employment base. The consultant will also review how much money the CA spent on training employees.
Sending Mr Wangusi on compulsory leave has left the CA in an odd position without either a substantive director- general or chairman, a post that has been empty since the term of Ngene Ben Gituku expired in May 2017.
Mr Wangusi is serving his second four-year term at the CA, expected to expire in August 2019.
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