Nepotism ‘flowing freely’ at Kenya Pipeline Company

By VITALIS KIMUTAI

KENYA: Another senior manager at the Kenya Pipeline Company has admitted that nepotism is deeply entrenched in the company.

He said all senior and middle level managers had recruited many of their relatives in various departments.

Engineering Manager Bramwel Wanyalikha said his daughter was employed in the company and he was not the only senior manager in KPC with relatives.

“I did not influence the employment of my daughter as she was picked externally though the recruitment that had been advertised internally,” he said.

Mr Wanyalikha told the Parliamentary Committee on Energy chaired by Kigumo MP Jamleck Kamau on Thursday, that he did not sit in the committee that recruited his daughter and as such had no influence over the matter. “There are many cases of husband and wife working in the company. There are those with sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces and nephews. I do not want to mention names but this is the trend in the company,” Wanyalikha said.