A report published by the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) shows that courts awarded Ksh18.5 billion against government institutions in the Financial Year 2022/2023.
During the year under review, 4,185 cases were filed against public organisations, an increase by 223 from the 3,962 reported the previous financial year.
The report highlighted that in the same year, the government lost Ksh 605.1 million in prosecuted cases while the amount of money recovered from court cases stood at Ksh 222.7 million.
As captured in the report, labour disputes were the leading causes of litigation against public organisations accounting for 976 or (23.3%) of all the cases.
PSC ranked land and environment cases as the second, accounting for 838 (20%) of the cases while administrative acts came in as the third most cited cause for lawsuits against government institutions at 829 (19.8%) cases.
PSC, also explained that 31 out of the 523 responding organisations reported cases of corruption affecting 109 officers out of the 253,318 public officers.
Away from lawsuits, during the year under review, the PSC report revealed a total of 2,660 officers held acting positions out of which 966 had been held in acting capacity as prescribed by the law while 1,694 (63.7%) acted beyond the prescribed six months.
“There were 247 (9.2%) officers who acted beyond 3 years,” read the statement in part.
PSC had also revealed that there was a lack of ethnic diversity in the public service, with Rift Valley dominating most of the non-competitive State jobs.
Additionally, the report also highlighted that more than 500 civil servants were hired with forged certificates.
Based on the report, the State Department for Internal Security and National Administration accounted for the highest number of employees— 107— who secured employment using forged certificates.
Furthermore, the report also revealed that State House paid 483 employees illegally, who were not in it's payroll.
