Jubilee’s Civil Service Has Only 17Percent Youths, PSC Report Reveals

When Jubilee was campaigning in 2013 and 2017, they bluffed their followers that they will run a government full of the ‘youths’. Right now, millions of young graduates are struggling to find jobs, while the Civil Service is monopolized by an ageing workforce that Jubilee government keep on recycling.

What’s more hurting is the fact that Kenyans aged below 40 years essentially make up 75 per cent of the population yet the report indicate that only 17.7 percent of the youths are on civil service payroll with an insignificant 0.03 per cent occupying senior positions.

Of the 47 per cent of Kenyans with formal training and who are eligible for various jobs, youths aged between 19 and 35 years only hold 20 per cent of national government jobs.

According to background search of civil servants by age assortment by PSC, 11,879 civil servants were aged between 51 and 60 years.

Additionally, 12,057 civil servants were aged between 56 and 60 years, while 399 were over the age of 60. Those aged between 46 and 50 were 11,739, implying that some have already bridged over the 50-year mark.

According to a2014-2015 National and County government human resource audit, the civil service was a face of the old and quick ageing workforce with 31 percent of the staff aged  between50 and 59 years.

Capacity Assessment and Rationalisation of the Public Service Programme report in the same year revealed that 30 percent of the civil service was in the 40-49 age bracket with Ministries records indicating that 40 percent of their staffs are over 50 years.

This is a picture of your so called digital government. Youths only get employed on election promises, on the ground things are different.