Nationwide job recruitment facing challenges as applicants cry of extortion.
A national recruitment drive for foreign job opportunities kicked off in the Rift Valley region on Monday, November 25, but alleged extortion by recruitment agencies marred the exercise.
At the opening of the first recruitment center in Nakuru, candidates told journalists that some agents demanded money from them to ensure their slots.
There have been demands for processing fees in the range of Ksh150 000 to Ksh180 000. One candidate even spoke of some doubts on their part in participating, saying, “We are short of the funds required for this process.
He also instructed them to research those positions they were interested in applying for so that they could have a better understanding of what they were seeking.
The jobs in Qatar pay for airfare but not medical or visa costs. It depends. He told them to get informed of what will be required of them before they leave this place.
The agencies are now on my radar. No Kenyan citizen is going to be rigged for jobs during my tenure as CS of Labour.
The nationwide recruitment drive is part of President William Ruto’s plans to deal with unemployment, seeking to deploy 20,000 Kenyans for work opportunities abroad, including Qatar, Europe, Canada, and Australia.
The Nakuru exercise was devised to offer 1000 job positions in various fields to the benefit of the local people. The next recruitment drive shall take place in Baringo on Tuesday, November 26th. Apart from the alleged extortion, the applicants also complained of the nature of available job opportunities, which they said some of them were not worth taking.
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“One candidate even suggested that the tax be used to create jobs for Kenyans right here in this country,” he purred, silky-voiced.
During the first round of the recruitment exercise in Nairobi sometime back, 3,247 applicants got jobs in Qatar. The exercise is set to roll out to all 47 counties in Kenya though the first phase will cover 31 counties.
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