The acting secretary and chief executive officer of the Council of Legal Education (CLE), Ms Jennifer Gitiri, is accused of holding multiple public office jobs and surprising enough, she is getting paid in all of them.
In a petition filed in the high court by Dr Magare Gikenyi, it’s alleged that Ms Gitiri has been drawing salaries and allowances from the exchequer by holding eight public office jobs, a move he described as an abuse of administrative power.
Among the offices Ms Gitiri holds are: the deputy director for Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), corporate secretary at the Assets Recovery Agency, acting chief executive officer and acting secretary of the CLE. Jennifer Gitiri also sits on several boards as a representative of the Attorney-General.
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The boards she allegedly sits on include the Kenya Law Reporting (KLR), Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), Witness Protection Agency and the Victim Protection Agency, representing Attorney General Justin Muturi.
This has come as a shock to many kenyans as the government insists that there are no jobs while individuals like Jennifer Gitiri holds eight public offices. Positions that she gets paid with public funds every month.
It’s however unclear how Jennifer got these jobs without being noticed. Errors can occur in two jobs but up to eight state jobs is not an error,
Dr Gikenyi now wants the accused to explain the possibility of holding multiple state jobs at the expense of poor kenyans who are willing to find a single job but are unable to.
However, the question remain as to how many people like Jennifer Gitiri with multiple jobs earning salaries as ghosts. Both in the National government and Counties. With similar cases reported in counties where millions of money is spent on ghost workers