NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 14 – Electricity workers union, Kenya Electrical Trades and Allied Workers Union (KETAWU) Tuesday decried what it termed as mismanagement at Kenya Power and blamed the board for failing to support its employees.
In a statement, the union’s Secretary-General Ernest Nadome accused the board of frustrating all internally generated ideas in favor of non-actors in the sector.
He further claimed that the board offers direct supervision of procurement and warehousing processes with the intent to award them to specific people.
“The board has also failed to facilitate the provision of critical fast-moving materials including meters thus rendering management impotent and frustrated in the face of the public, hence the current probe by EACC is timely and supported by the Union and workers alike,” he added.
He stated that employees said they are demoralized due to lack of promotions, long servicing contracts, and casuals not converted as agreed with the management.
The statement comes in the wake of a recently launched probe by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) into allegations of interference in procurement processes at the state-controlled electricity distributor.
This came barely a month after the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bernard Ngugi resigned under unclear circumstances barely two years after his appointment.
In 2020, the MPs also demanded an investigation on how the company bought faulty transformers and prepaid token metres.
