Kyambogo on the spot over staff recruitment

The positions filled by these ‘clandestine’ recruitments and promotions include heads of departments, secretaries, lectures, among others.

With dust settling at Kyambogo University following protracted legal battles for sacking Vice Chancellor Isaiah Omolo Ndiege, the university top management is on the spot again over alleged unfair recruitment of staff.

According to documents sent to the IGG, part of evidence in the ongoing investigations into mismanagement, the “Appointments Board has in the previous months been recruiting and promoting staff in an undue process awash with nepotism, favouritism, among other anomalies.”

Allegations
The documents from a whistle blower claims that the recruitment of staff has been ongoing without guidance of the senate and the university council contrary to the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act.

The positions filled by these ‘clandestine’ recruitments and promotions include heads of departments, secretaries, lectures, among others.

The documents also reveal that, “some of the vacancies were advertised in the press but recruitments and promotions had already been conducted” .

Management responds
However, the university management wrote on December 18 that, “due to the university’s financial position for this financial year, the university secretary informed the appointments board that the institution could only recruit an exact number of vacancies occupied by contractual staff and not as had been advertised.”

In another letter to the IGG, some staff member accused the human resource department of failing to execute staff performance monitoring appraisal and irregular extension of contracts for redundant staff without approval from the appointments board.
Attempts to get a comment from the management were futile by press time.

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