NAIROBI, KENYA, MAY 1 – Borana, Kenyan Somali, and Luhya communities have dominated recruitment in Sports, Arts and Social Development Fund (SASDF).
In a statement, fund administrator Nuh Ibrahim stated that the three communities each had 15 employees working at the funds, accounting for 12.5 percent of the total employees.
Communities with the least number of employees in the fund include Luo, Maasai, Turkana, and Teso, with each having 4 employees, thus accounting for 4 percent of the fund’s total workforce.
Of the 100 job positions in the fund, 65.4 percent are male and 34.6 percent are female. 3.7 percent of the employees are people living with disabilities.
The employee’s average age is 41 years, with youth in the age bracket of 18–35 years getting a huge chunk.
The fund has, however, assured that it will highly consider recruiting more women and people living with disabilities in the next recruitment.
“The fund has not recruited since inception, however, should there be any recruitment in the future, persons with disabilities, women, and minorities will be considered,” he stated.
This comes after the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) and the Kenya Power Diversity Report highlighted that the Kikuyu and Kalenjin tribes had dominated their workforce; however, in the SASDF, this was not the case.
In the fund, Kikuyus came second with 12 employees accounting for 3 percent of the workforce, while the Kalenjins came third with 8 employees accounting for 2 percent of the workforce.
