The Auditor-General, Nancy Gathungu, reveals numerous irregularities in KRA recruitment for Revenue Service Assistant positions filled last year.
The irregularities include:
- Recruitment was unfair, with 56% coming from the Kikuyu and Kalenjin communities.
- In aptitude test 1, 69 applicants with grades below D+ participated, and 30 did so in test 2.
- 5,577 applicants failed to disclose their age, but KRA irregularly allowed them to proceed with the application and selection process.
- The system initially recorded 127,112 applicants, later corrected to 123,525.
The system accepted incomplete applications that contained non-numeric characters or duplicated applicants’ identity numbers.
The report also reveals that some applicants received permission to submit multiple applications under separate identity numbers.
Tax evasion and other tax-related offences are so complex that it takes an intelligent person to decipher them. Employing individuals without considering their abilities and solely based on their ethnicity undermines the fundamental goal of hiring them.
