{"id":600,"date":"2019-10-29T00:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinvolvement.wordpress.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2019-10-29T00:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:22:14","slug":"interns-rejected-by-ministries-and-government-due-to-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2019\/10\/29\/interns-rejected-by-ministries-and-government-due-to-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNS REJECTED BY MINISTRIES AND GOVERNMENT DUE TO GLITCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By: Brenda Mongare (brendamongare171595@daystar.ac.ke)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thumbnail photo courtesy of: the-star.co.ke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A delay in the introduction to ministries and government corporations saw interns posted by the Public Service Commission (PSC) rejected. Public Service Cabinet Secretary Margaret Kobia admitted the glitch affected several interns but this was being addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe majority of interns are\nreporting to ministries and a few in State corporations. There are no State\ncorporations that rejected interns. However, some interns reported to\ncorporations with their posting letters while the corporations had not received\nPSC guidelines on how to deploy the interns,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the departments wanted to be\nallowed to directly contract the interns, while some heads complained that the\ngraduates sent to their dockets did not possess the primary degrees to learn on\nthe job and a suspicion that some of them have been detailed to spy on them and\nsubsequently report them to their bosses or investigative agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll MDAs have received guidance\nletters and interns continue to report with a deadline of November 1. Any recruited\nintern who has any reporting challenges to contact PSC for assistance,\u201d Prof\nKobia said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some turned them away saying they\ndid not have physical space to accommodate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An unemployment crisis continues to\nbite, with many graduates opting for menial jobs to earn a living. Prof Kobia\nrevealed that 40 percent of Kenya\u2019s productive population, mostly the youth, do\nnot have meaningful jobs. \u201cWe are looking forward to recruiting 4,000 health\nworkers following a request from the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose with certificates, diplomas\nand degrees will benefit as the ministry moves to address the shortage of\nmanpower,\u201d PSC Chairman Stephen Kirogo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of those that have turned\ninterns away are Kenya Ports Authority, Kenyatta National Hospital, Moi\nTeaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya Bureau of Standards, Kenya Medical\nResearch Institute, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, and the\nKenya Revenue Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government recruited 3,600\ngraduates in a plan the PSC believes will address the problem of an aging\nworkforce when they are finally absorbed after one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 3,200 public servants exit the\nservice every year through natural attrition while 18,600 graduates applied for\nthe slots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Kirogo disclosed that they had\nreceived 13,000 applications for the second intake that targets 4,000 recruits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is an overwhelming response\nand I\u2019m happy people are keen to take part in the program,\u201d he said on\nSaturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recruited from all the 290\nconstituencies, the PSC chairman holds that the program will in the long run\ncure the dominance of a few ethnic groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A PSC report in July on its ethnic\ncomposition tabled in Parliament indicated that five tribes \u2013 Kikuyu, Luhya,\nKisii, Maasai and Embu \u2014 control 53.3 per cent of the 223 jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delay in the introduction to ministries and government corporations saw interns posted by the Public Service Commission (PSC) rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,16],"tags":[92,151,34,152,153,28,154],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news","tag-government","tag-interns","tag-kenya","tag-kenyan-government","tag-unemployement","tag-youth","tag-youth-unemployement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}