By The Weekly Vision Team
A human rights lobby group has asked President William Ruto to disband the National Employment Authority (NEA) over integrity issues. The group, under the banner of Voice for the Voiceless, petitioned the president to move with speed and dissolve the agency on grounds that it was colluding with rogue employment agencies to fleece job seekers.
“We are calling for the sacking of Director-General Edith Okoki and the entire NEA board. The entire system at NEA has been working closely with rogue agencies that end up frustrating Kenyans while abroad,” reads a statement by the lobby group. The group says they have been writing to the various agencies and the parastatal, but they have yet to receive any response.
“We have written a number of letters to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), but no one seems to care about our concerns. We are telling President Ruto to take action as soon as possible, failure to which we will pitch camp at the headquarters,” the groups’ petition partly reads.
They added, “It has come to our knowledge that over 500,000 youths’ dreams of securing jobs abroad have been dimmed by NEA due to corruption and political interests. Many youths with visas cannot take up foreign jobs due to many bottlenecks brought about by the authority’s ineptitude, corruption, and sabotage.”
