- Kalonzo Musyoka has demanded that TSC disclose five years of recruitment records amid allegations that appointment letters are being issued from State House.
- He has directed Wiper MPs and lawyers to formally request the records within 48 hours, giving the institutions seven days to respond under Kenya’s access-to-information framework.
- Kalonzo has also ordered the NPSC and KDF to provide similar recruitment data, warning that failure to comply will result in court action to compel disclosure.
Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has demanded that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) disclose details of all recruitments conducted over the past five years, amid growing allegations that political connections, rather than merit, are increasingly shaping hiring into public institutions.
In a statement issued on Friday, Kalonzo cited claims that TSC recruitment letters were being issued from State House, saying the allegations should be investigated. “When the Speaker of the National Assembly says something like this in public, it stops being gossip. It becomes a matter that this country must get to the bottom of,” he said. He wants TSC to provide information on the number of teachers recruited, the criteria used and the regions from which recruits were selected.
Kalonzo said recruitment practices must comply with Article 232 of the Constitution, which requires public service appointments to uphold merit, fair competition and representation of Kenya’s diverse communities.
“We have been getting information for months that recruitment into these institutions has stopped reflecting who we are as a country, and that where a job comes from now depends less on merit and more on who you know or who you voted for. That is not how Article 232 of our Constitution was written, and it is certainly not how a republic is supposed to work,” he said.
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He said he had directed Wiper MPs and lawyers to write to TSC within 48 hours seeking the recruitment information under Kenya’s access-to-information framework, with a seven-day compliance window beginning once the letters are received. “Seven days. That is what I am giving the NPSC, TSC and the KDF to come clean on who they have recruited over the last five years, how many, on what basis, and from where in this country. Kenyans are waiting,” Kalonzo said.
He warned that failure to provide the requested information would prompt legal action, with his team seeking court orders to compel the institutions to disclose the records. “If they choose silence instead of answers, we will go to court and ask a judge to compel them to disclose what they are hiding,” he said.
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Kalonzo has also ordered the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to provide the same recruitment records, extending the demand beyond TSC to cover all three institutions as part of the broader push for transparency in public service hiring.
By Masaki Enock
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