Bomet Woman Rep Linet Chepkorir. She has been sued over nepotism with the petitioners claiming that six of the 15 members of staff hired by the MP are her relatives.Two Bomet residents have sued the county Woman Representative Linet Chepkorir alias Toto over alleged nepotism for employing her immediate family members at her office.In a suit filed at the Employment and Labour Relations Court in Nairobi, Mr Collins Barno and Mr Stanley Kiprotich Bii claim the MP failed to adhere to minimum requirements of transparency, fair competition, merit and integrity in recruitment of her office staff.They claim that six of the 15 members of staff hired by the MP are her relatives.They also claim her relatives are cumulatively gobbling up Sh612,000 monthly pay out of the Sh811,000 allocated for staff salaries.The petitioners, however, have not disclosed the alleged family relationship between the MP and each of the six employees.”While appointing the six persons, Ms Chepkorir also totally ignored the gender principle which is a requirement in public appointments as the dictates of the Constitution. There are only three women out of the 15 staff she has employed in her office,” the petitioners The six persons are Bett Kipkirui (county manager, office of woman representative), Dominic Mutai (deputy manager), Sheila Chepng’eno (county coordinator), Josephat Kiplangat (field officer), Pius Kiplangat (communications officer) and Emmanuel Kipkorir
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