The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has said it will audit recent presidential appointments to State corporations.
NCIC will seek to determine whether the postings complied with laws outlawing ethnic discrimination and domination.
Opposition leaders have accused the Jubilee administration of filling most posts with people from only two communities.
Late last month, the President appointed about 300 men and women to head or join State boards and corporations and argued he chose from all tribes.
NCIC also announced yesterday in Mombasa that 45 per cent of employees at State House are from one tribe, in a scathing analysis of tribe and cohesion in Kenya's public institutions, including ministries and public universities since the enactment of the NCIC Act in 2008.
Commission Chairman Francis ole Kaparo accused politicians and public officials of warmongering, promoting discrimination and inciting hatred.
He addressed a panel of MPs that deals with national cohesion and integration when he announced that NCIC will also audit employment policies in the two Houses of Parliament and Judiciary to establishment compliance with relevant laws on discrimination, domination and exclusion.
The former speaker said a "mental attitude to disobey the law" by Kenyan leaders has become "a national malady" leading to impunity.
Kaparo said all public appointments ought to comply with the relevant laws, including the one that outlaws domination of any tribe by more than a third and disclosed that most ministries and public universities are controlled or dominated by the dominant tribes in their locality. He said presidential appointments are not exempted from the application of this law.
"We are going to perform an audit of recent appointments to State corporations. There are certain parameters that must be followed and they are legal," said Kaparo.
He said despite the enactment of the NCIC Act and publication of policies that outlaw ethnic domination, bad practices started at the national level have now percolated into public universities and county governments, which have also adopted ethnic employment policies.
"Several ministries are operating in breach of the legal requirement that no ministry should have more than one third of staff from one community," he said.
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