Impeached Vice President Ligati Gachagua, despite publicly indicating that Kenya’s Kwanzaa regime had inherited an “empty treasury” when he took over with President William Ruto in September Within a year, he oversaw the expansion of the firm’s staff. 2013.
Documents from the Public Service Commission (PSC), the government’s main civil service personnel agency, show that the impeached Democratic Progressive Party had 145 employees, including technocrats and support staff, when it took office.
Some staff members left Dr. Ruto to pursue other interests. For example, advisors Anthony Kibagendi and John Chikati will be MPs for Kitutu Chache South and Tongaleng provinces respectively in the August 2022 general election.
The number has since increased to 627, and on April 4, 2023, 56 new additions were added following the PSC’s approval of a request made through the Principal Administrative Secretary in the Office of the Vice President, Mr. Patrick Mwangi. With the addition of posts, the number has expanded to 683.
The PSC letter to Mr Mwangi, signed by Dr Simon Rotich, said: “After considering your requests, the PSC has given approval to create additional posts in the Office of the Vice President, increasing the number of staff to 683. I’ll let you know.” wrote the then-Secretary and CEO of the PSC.
Before entering politics, Mr Kibagendi was an adviser on youth affairs, where he was an adviser on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), alongside Mr Chikati.
Jeffrey Kaituko also resigned to take up the post of Principal Secretary for Shipping and Maritime Affairs. He was an advisor on conflict management. The Climate Change and Food Security Department, which was under the Democratic Party’s office during the tenure of outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta, was transferred to the State House by President Ruto by executive order.
Within the expanded staff facilities, Mr. Gachagua has opened three new offices for education, economic trade and investment advisors.
However, when The Nation contacted him about the status of the remaining 575 staff, Mr Mwangi said: “The furloughs only affected those in senior leadership positions.”
However, despite Mwangi’s statements, on October 23, 2024, all Democratic Progressive Party staff were prohibited from entering the Harambee Annex office, which houses the Democratic Progressive Party’s offices.
When asked if this situation still exists, he replied: “It has been sorted out. The rest of the team is operating as usual.”
The impeached Democratic Progressive Party had 39 redundant staff members, compared to 11 for former office holders and 87 staff members for their spouses’ offices.
The staff structure strengthened under the impeached Democratic Party office includes the Chief Architect, Chief Supervising Engineer, Senior Supervising Electrical Engineer, Senior Mechanical Supervisor for the Factory, Senior Mason, and Senior Painter. It was.
The strengthened staff also had a full-fledged legal services department, including a Chief State Counselor and a Chief State Counselor in charge of legal services.
“The PSC recommended that the Office of the Vice President request an internal audit service from the National Treasury that would centrally provide services to the remaining civil servants,” Dr. Rotich said in the letter.
The PSC approved the strengthening of staffing in the DP’s office and therefore rejected the request to promote the deputy chief of staff in the DP’s spouse’s office.
Dr Rotich advised Mr Mwangi to retain the position of Deputy Chief of Staff for the DP spouse at CSG/Function Group ‘T’ level.
Dr Rotich told Mr Mwangi that the candidate nominated for this position would be considered for appointment as Deputy Chief of Staff for CSG 3/Functional Group ‘U’ on a ‘personal’ basis during His Excellency’s term. He said it would be done. Vice President. ”
This comes as the PSC approved the reclassification of Assistant Senior Hospitality Officer (Therapist) from CSG 9/Job Group ‘L’ to Assistant Principal Hospitality Officer (CSG 8/Job Group ‘N’). Despite this, it was.
Principal Clinical Officer – CSG 8/Position Group ‘N’ has been promoted to Principal Registered Clinical Officer I- CSG 7/Position Group ‘P’.
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The PSC also reviewed the organizational structure of the DP Office to create a Coordination and Operations Directorate, which was “incorrectly omitted in the current organizational structure.”
The PSC advised Mr Mwangi that the 15 newly created positions of Grounds and Gardens Assistant III/II-CSG 15/14 Job Group E/F be filled as needed.
The surplus officers of the DPP office include a chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff, one private secretary, four personal assistants, two deputy directors for administrative services, two deputy directors for administrative services in the director’s office, and five assistant directors. This included 16 drivers.
The administration department had 85 staff, 33 more than the staff inherited from its predecessor, and the communications department had 35 staff, none of which were from its predecessor.
The video camera and film service department had seven staff members, compared to one at the old DP.
The engineering and technology department had eight staff members, none of whom were assigned to the previous DP.
The impeached Democratic Progressive Party had 13 support staff, but six of them worked under President Ruto when he was in the Democratic Progressive Party.
The staff of the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council increased from three to nine under the now-impeached leader Gachagua, and under Gachagua’s watch a 17-person International Development Partnership Coordination Unit was also created.
This office did not exist under the previous Democratic Party.
A Standing Committee for the Implementation of Coffee, Tea and Dairy Sector Reforms was also established and assigned to him along with 21 staff facilities. This is as the Northeast Development Initiative (NEDI) department, consisting of seven staff members, was created and placed under his watch.
The Democratic Progressive Party that was impeached had 11 employees under its political affairs department. Gachagua had five advisers on law, food security, education, trade and investment, and youth issues, while his predecessor had none.
