Wednesday, October 25, 2023 –Cabinet Secretary for Public Service has started preparing Cabinet policy paper to weed out civil servants above 60 years of age.
Speaking during the unveiling of the NYS Re-engineering programme at the NYS headquarters in Ruaraka, Nairobi County, Kuria indicated that it was very wrong to leave young graduates from the NYS languishing in hopelessness despite their intensive months of training while old persons still hang on jobs in the government.
“After 60 years you must go home. This time I have cornered you and I must come for you. You have for long been mis-using our generosity.
“President said after 60 years you must go home and, before anyone is employed as a public servant, he or she must be cleared in age first,” he added.
Kuria added that this policy will be presented to the Cabinet sitting through a Cabinet paper and that he is optimistic it will be approved.
“This policy will be approved so that for any new hiring, one must come with NYS certificate firmly held between his or her teeth,” the Public Service CS noted.
He recounted how, recently, over 10,000 jobless graduates showed up for the Kenya Defence Forces KDF jobs that only had 300 vacancies.
“You saw how NYS youths are still jobless from the scenes which were witnessed at Embakasi Garrison Grounds that saw 10,000 people come for only 300 jobs.
“I almost shed tears and asked God to start providing us with small openings for you people and, luckily, here is the correct time,” CS Kuria added.
The CS also revealed plans to create a call centres that will handle complaints from Kenyans regarding service delivery by government Ministries, Departments and Agencies MDAs.
Mr. Kuria today indicated that the call centres were part of his strategy to ensure MDAs deliver on their mandate.
The CS indicated that the call centres will also be available to motorists to allow them to report police officers who collect bribes on the Kenyan roads.