The Ministry of Agriculture has moved to reassure staff in various departments that their jobs are safe in the ongoing restructuring of key parastatals.
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Felix Koskei said the new regulations requiring the merging of parastatals in the ministry would not affect the staff but various changes would be made.
Koskei noted that the formation of the Agriculture Food and Fisheries Authority and the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) will, however, have adverse changes on the management of staff.
Koskei said the staff in merged institutions will have to be moved from their previous stations in line with the new guidelines.
The CS was speaking to the press during a workshop on the merger of the institutions that have been put under KALRO.
The Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation brings together four research institutions formed several years ago and which will be managed by a board that will soon be constituted.
“The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Tea Research Foundation of Kenya, Kenya Sugar Research Foundation and Coffee Research Foundation have now been merged,” said Koskei.
He said that they had advertised for the position of the chairman of the board and will within two weeks announce the new board of management.
Koskei said all the staff under the previous research institutions should be ready to move as required under the new setup.