Elgeyo Marakwet County Assembly was put on the spot by Auditor General Edward Ouko after a report revealed that more than half of the staff was from one ethnic community.
The 2016-17 report by Ouko showed that those employed in the county assembly were from one tribe which was 94 per cent meaning only six per cent represented the other tribes which is against the law.
The Auditor General pointed out that the assembly had violated Section 65 (1) (e) of the County Government Act 2012 which requires that at least thirty per cent of the vacant posts at entry level are filled by candidates who are not from the dominant ethnic community in the county.
Records disclosed that the staff was made up of 67 members with 63 being from one tribe as reported by the Star.
Seven out of the 67 members who were hired during the 2016-17 financial year emerged from the same ethnic community.
In 2015, a similar report by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) highlighted that Bomet and Nyamira counties topped the list of 30 counties that had failed to employ at least 30 per cent of non-locals.
"The findings of this report allude to the fact that employment in the county public service is not only inequitable but skewed towards the dominant groups in the county," read a part of the report.
NCIC chairman Francis Ole Kaparo had stated that all counties should comply with the provisions given.
"This vindicates the fact that all counties can and should comply with the CGA provisions," remarked Kaparo.
The report by NCIC further revealed that most counties that had contravened the law claimed that the reason for the non-compliance was due to the inheritance of staff from non functional local authorities.
