Questions have emerged after PSC appointed retired officers as high-paid management analysts. Each earned nearly Sh500,000 per month. Their duties remain unclear.
An audit revealed PSC hired them between March 2023 and September 2024. The commission spent Sh25.7 million on salaries. PSC said it needed their help to clear backlogs in state agencies. But Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu said the move violated public service hiring rules.
PSC created five temporary positions. A letter dated March 17, 2023, gave each retiree a three-month contract with a Sh210,000 salary. Another letter on August 2, 2023, raised the pay to Sh460,947. The audit found no explanation for the sudden increase.
PSC extended the contracts to September 2024. However, it failed to show how it chose the five or whether the recruitment was competitive. All were former staff of the State Department of Public Service and National Treasury.
Gathungu said this violated the 2016 PSC Human Resource Manual. The law sets retirement at 60, or 65 for people with disabilities. PSC claimed the retirees had rare expertise. But the audit found no proof. Gathungu concluded PSC broke the law by hiring the retirees without justification or evidence of their unique qualifications.
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