Thousands of jobless Kenyans yesterday turned up in a recruitment exercise at Kasarani Stadium in what is suspiciously shaping out to have been a con game. This followed widely circulated reports that the East Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Safe Promotion International organization was offering jobs to at least 20,000 Kenyans. Job seekers started arriving at the stadium as early as 6am.
According to the East Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Safe Promotion International organization’s CEO Mr. Julius Kithome, the exercise was being conducted in conjunction with the ministry of devolution. Furthermore, according to the NGOs co-ordination board, the organization has not been registered as an NGO by the board and is neither working or partnering with the ministry of devolution.
“Kenya will experience a revolution during the programme’s first year in terms of economic and social empowerment of her people. We have the blessings of the government,” said Mr Kithome. Strikingly, no government official from the ministry of devolution or any other civil office was present during the exercise.
According to one of the appointment letters issued to the more than 20,000 unemployed Kenyans who received the appointment letters, the position of regional Unit Cluster Manager in Nyanza has a gross salary of Sh. 120,000 per month. The appointed person is expected to work for five days in a week and half day on Saturdays.
Nonetheless, reports are emerging that the organization was asking for Sh. 1,000 for transport, Sh. 500 for T-Shirts, and Sh. 300 for badges from those who attended the public interviews. Additionally, those who had applied for the jobs were being asked to pay Sh. 350 as registration fees.
Notably, two of the company’s directors had been arrested in July after soliciting Sh. 150,000 from jobless youths in Voi during similar job interview.
According to Jay Walloga, the organization had earlier tried to con his mother Sh. 2,000. “My mum was nominated by the same organization for training and was promised that the money President Obama brought is being given to women and youth through the said NGO. She has been asked to pay 2,000 to facilitate their transport costs from western to Nairobi for purposes of launching the program at Uhuru park on 31 August 2015,” said Walloga in an online platform.
