Kenya Ports Authority warns staff over fake certificates
What you need to know:
- Human resource officials send letters to staff ordering them to explain how they obtained them.
- Dock workers union secretary-general Simon Sang confirmed that some workers had received the letters.
Anxiety has gripped workers at the Kenya Ports Authority after human resource officials wrote warning letters to employees suspected of having fake papers.
Sources indicated that at least 300 employees presented forged documents for promotion between 2009 and 2011 but have now been identified in an audit the government ordered late last year.
The culprits have now been issued with letters ordering them to explain how they obtained the forged documents or show cause why they should not be sacked.
Dock Workers Union secretary-general Simon Sang confirmed that some workers had received the letters but disputed the figure, saying they were about 130.
"Of that number, only about five have received the letters," he said, adding that the certificates verification process was still ongoing.
'WENT TO RIVER ROAD'
He explained that when workers were given a condition to present papers before promotion, "some of them went to River Road and had them made".
"But we cannot blame them entirely because they were trying to survive," he said.
"We have also sent a letter to the management to caution them that they should not victimise any employee. After all it was the responsibility of the HR department to authenticate the validity of the papers while the said workers were on probation for two years," Mr Sang added.
It was not possible to get a comment from officials at KPA as calls to the head of HR Mr Salim Chingabwe went unanswered.
