The Nairobi County's Executive irregularly employed 3,834 staff without following due process, a report by the Auditor General for the year 2023/2024 has revealed.
The audit highlights that no advertisement was made for the said positions or any shortlisting made during the hiring process making it difficult to audit how they were recruited.
The report says this made it a daunting task to tell if there were vacancies to be filled by the said staff adding that some crucial positions in some departments were filled by unqualified staff. "An officer was appointed as Director Infrastructure and Information Security despite lacking academic qualifications of Master's Degree in Computer Science or any other ICT related discipline from recognized institution and strategic leadership development course lasting not less than four weeks from a recognized institution," the report reads.
Similarly, the auditor general stated that the recruitment was done for units that could not be traced in the staff establishment, scheme of services and the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Database (IPPD).
