Public Service minister Dalmas Otieno (pictured) last week released a report showing Kenya's Kikuyu and Kalenjin occupy nearly a third of all civil service jobs. Kenya has over 43 tribes.
By PETER NG’ETICH, pngetich@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Sunday, July 3 2011 at 21:45
Posted Sunday, July 3 2011 at 21:45
A total of 73 civil servants are past retirement age, with nine being 71 years old and above, while 17 are between 66 and 70.
The other 47 are aged between 61 and 65, a survey by the Public Service ministry shows.
The survey says 7,850 civil servants are set to retire as they are between the ages of 56 and 60.
The majority of civil servants are aged between 36 and 55 and comprise 162,133 of the 217,069 workers.
Of the ageing civil service, 67 per cent do not have adequate academic qualifications. About 3,185 of them fall between the ages of 41 to 60 out of the 3,373 (94.26 per cent).
The survey showed that the majority of officers in the age bracket have Certificate of Primary Education (Standard Seven), Kenya Junior Secondary Education (Form Two) and Form Six (A Levels).
A majority of the civil servants are primary school leavers who comprise 19,512 of the civil service. They fall in the age brackets of 46 to 50 (5,397) and 51 to 55 years (6,244).
About 172,914 staff in the civil service spread across all age brackets possess secondary school certificates.
In this category, a majority are aged 26 to 30 (29,271), 31 to 35 (25,538), 41 to 45 (23,863) and 46 to 50 years (25,775).
Only 1,343 civil servants are in possession of diplomas. It was noted that higher diplomas, diplomas and certificates were the least held qualification (combined) in the civil service at 0.62 per cent.
“The highest concentrations in this category are in the 26 to 30 age bracket (2.6 per cent) followed by the 31 to 35 age bracket (1.93 per cent),” the survey found.
Only about 8.31 per cent of the civil service, which is about 18,042 staff, service have bachelors degrees.
The majority of civil service bachelors degree holders are between the 26 to 30 age bracket (3,307), 31 to 35 (3,842), 36 to 40 (2,688), 41 to 45 (3,525) and 46 to 50 (2,394).
And 1,743 civil servants hold masters degrees, with a majority of them, 25 per cent (436) in the 51 to 55 age group followed by the 41 to 45 age bracket.
There are 136 civil servants with Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) qualifications spread across all age brackets except those below 25 years.
There are 136 civil servants with Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) qualifications spread across all age brackets except those below 25 years.
The majority of PhD holders — 39 per cent — are in the age bracket 51 to 55 (53) followed by those aged between 46 and 50 (22) while 15 civil servants between the ages of 56 to 60 have doctorates.
It was noted that 14 (10.3 per cent) out of 136 PhDs in the civil service are held by officers aged 60 to 100 years.
The ageing civil service cadre with little academic qualifications can be traced back to the mid 1990s when the State imposed an embargo on recruitment and lack of a plan to replace employees leaving the service through natural attrition.
But the government has now speeded up recruitment of hundreds of workers in various cadres in the civil service.
According to a document made available to the Nation, 100 human resources officers have been hired to tackle the staffing imbalance created by the 1992 freeze, says the document by the Directorate of Personnel Management.
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very imbalanced civil service.hope the new constitution will put things right especially in the archaic recruitment procedures
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