Jobless Kenyans left stranded after company denies agreement deal with CS Kuria
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Company denies agreement deal with Public Service CS Kuria to offer internships to Kenyans under WANAGENZI program
Company denies agreement deal with Public Service CS Kuria to offer internships to Kenyans under WANAGENZI program.
After getting messages to report for internships on Tuesday, March 5, hundreds of young Kenyans have been left stranded, with some employers claiming they were unaware they were to receive new staff.
Under the Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria’s National Graduate Internship Programme (WANAGENZI), the young Kenyans were to be placed in various commercial enterprises.
The CS himself had earlier disclosed of the agreement on February 28 at a meeting with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA).
“I made a passionate appeal through the KEPSA that we all partner in the National Graduates internships program and ensure we accommodate as many graduates as possible and help build a strong country for all of us,” he stated then.
Immediately thereafter, young Kenyans who were among 50,000 unsuccessful applicants for Public Service Commission jobs started receiving congratulatory messages and new placements in the private sector.
They were also invited for the flagging off of the 2024 WANAGENZI Cohort on Monday, March 4, which has since been called off.
One of the companies in a press statement noted that it had not been consulted before the interns were placed in the firm.
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‘We would like to clarify that we are not currently offering any internship positions under WANAGENZI, nor are we conducting interviews for such positions. We have no affiliation with the mentioned program,” the statement read in part.
The company stated that although it had a partnership with KEPSA, it was not engaged in any internship discussion.
“We wish to emphasize that the internship announcement referenced in the message is not associated with our organization,” Kenyans waiting at their workstations were told.
This was despite the interns receiving the texts from the official government channel which had already uploaded their particulars to the WANAGENZI platform.
CS Kuria has yet to address the stranded interns on the way forward following the confusion.
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