The Siaya County Assembly has landed on the spotlight for hiring a suspicious number of interns.
Civil service societies are now questioning the assembly for hiring 'too many' interns, half the number of county employees.
The group which claims that the house has a total of 50 interns now claims that the county is losing a slot in the wage bill, as the interns are also on a payroll.
Addressing the press Wednesday, Community Initiative Action Group (CIAG) Kenya Executive Director Chris Owala faulted the county for having too many interns.
Owala is the leader of the group, and also questioned the criteria used to hire the interns.
However, the allegations were rubbished by County Assembly Speaker George Okode who claims that the hiring of the interns has no impact on the county wage bill.
He added that the hiring does not break any constitutional law.
“There is no rule which stipulates the total number of interns required by the assembly at any particular time," he told the Citizen Digital on Wednesday.
It has emerged that each of the interns takes home a monthly pay of twenty thousand Kenya Shillings.
But the Speaker is arguing that the money is being soared from the budges of allowances allocated for county assembly lawmakers.