NAIROBI, KENYA: The Public Service Commission employed 246 people to the public service in the last one year. Of these 141 (57 percent) were men and 105 (43 percent) were women. In the year, 8,560 o fficers from various cadres were promoted in various ministries. Commission chairperson Prof Margaret Kobia said 3,990 of those promoted were male while and 4,610 were female. She said the commission was allocated Sh882 million of which Sh675 million was recurrent expenditure and rest for development. Prof Kobia said the commission seconded 446 and 60,695 officers from various cadres to the Transition Authority and County Governments respectively. She said he commission administered Declaration of income, Assets and Liabilities to 195,654 officers out of 317,724 officers translating to a compliance rate of 87 percent. “The variance of about 94,000 is as a result of the secondment of officers to the county public service during transition to devolved government and whose declaration returns had not been received by the time the returns were compiled,” said Kobia. She made the remarks during the launch of the commission’s annual report for 2013/2014. She said among the challenges the commission is facing include the delay in the enactment of the Revised Public Service Commission Act and legislation to institutionalise and operationalise values and principles stipulated in law and inadequate funding. Among major achievements in the service, the commission inducted County Public Service Boards on matters human resource management as devolution took effect. She said the commission will continue to play an oversight role in human resource management in the public service by progressively developing, reviewing and issuing management policies and guidelines to the service. The commission takes care of 240,000 employees. Of these ministries and state departments has 57,000, 95,000 are seconded to the County Service Boards, stat corporations have 90995 and independent commissions have 994. “The commission will always endeavour to deliver its mandate in accordance with existing rules and regulations and as stipulated in the constitution.” The report was launched in a colourful ceremony attended by senior commissioners in the public service and secretary Alice Otwala #wao where is the disability voice hear? #we also need the data on disability disegragated #professor Margret Kobia #you can do more. #ncpwd kazi
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:51:38 +0000
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