Kalenjins are the majority of staff at Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) at 756 (15.87 per cent) of total employees, a report to a Parliamentary committee shows.
The report to National Assembly’s National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity Committee said Kikuyu come second at 754 or 15.82 per cent of the total staff.
Others are Kambas (439), Luo (425), Luhya (354), Mijikenda (268), Meru (232), Kisii (188), Somali (174), Maasai (168) and Borana (124).
Minority communities Ilchamus and Ogiek each have four members employed at KWS.
“The approved staff establishment for KWS is 6,449 with an in-post of 4,766 comprising both uniformed 3, 420 (71.8 per cent) and non-uniformed 1,345 (28.2 per cent) employees deployed in all parts of the country,” the report stated.
Before the passage of the Constitution in 2010, Kikuyus were the majority at 667 (17.37 per cent) of the total.
Kalenjins were 538 (14.01 per cent), Kambas 407 (10.60 per cent), Luo 348 (9.06 per cent), Luhya 296 (7.71 per cent) and Kisii 169 (4.04 per cent).
Staff employed in the last three mass recruitment include; Kalenjins 538 (14.01 per cent), Kambas 407 (10.60 per cent), Luo 348 (9.06 per cent), Luhya 296 (7.71 per cent) and Kisii 169 (4.04 per cent).
In the last three mass recruitment, KWS employed 500, 566 and 600 in 2011, 2014 and 2014 respectively.
