Panic as KPLC orders staff to provide personal, spousal financial records

Kenya Power Company has notified all its employees to provide their personal and spousal details, tax records and account statements.

The details requested will be used in the fresh vetting process of the 7,000 employees of the company.

The General Manager, HR and Administration at Kenya Power Cecilia Kalungu-Uvyu made the announcement in a memo to company employees on Thursday

Kenya Power has given instructions to its employees on how to present the required information and where to submit the same.

The deadline for submission of the required details has been set for November 22, 2021.

“All staff members are hereby notified and urgently required to provide the information listed in sealed envelopes addressed to ‘Head of KPLC Vetting Team’. The envelope shall also indicate the name and staff number of the employee, to be received at the 6th-floor boardroom, Stima Plaza, by close of business, Monday, 22nd November 2021,” the memo read in part.

The memo also assured the company’s employees of the privacy and safety of the information they will provide.

“Staff members are assured that the provided information will be treated with utmost confidentiality, and in due regard to everyone's constitutional right,” read the memo.

The notice instructed staff members based in the regions to submit the information to their respective regional human resource office before the deadline.

The vetting exercise comes in the wake of investigations on the company’s financial operations.

The investigations have so far unearthed a syndicate working in collaboration with Kenya Power staff using a myriad of mobile numbers to defraud unsuspecting customers.

Kenya Power has revealed it has lost a lot of its revenue to the fraudsters estimated at billions of shillings.

The details required of Kenya Power employees for the vetting exercise are but not limited to the ones listed below:

1. Certified copies of bank statements of the officer and spouse for the last 6 months including any foreign accounts.
2. Certified copies of mobile money statements of the officer and spouse for the last 6 months.
3. Club Membership(s).
4. Current posting of officer: Employment; Job Group/Grade: list of previous deployments and number of years served per deployment; history of disciplinary cases; promotions received.
5. Employment particulars of the officer (Full Names, Identity Card Number, Passport Number; Pin Number: Driving License Number; Mobile Telephone number; Daytime Telephone Number: Email).
6. Full Names and Identity Card numbers of immediate family members (spouse, children, dependents, parents, siblings, business associates; agents; or associations where the officer has a direct and indirect pecuniary (financial) or non-pecuniary (financial) interest.
7. Kenya Revenue Authority Income Tax Returns for the officer and the officer's companies/businesses for the last 3 years.
8. List of known companies and businesses owned or controlled by the officer or immediate family members that have had commercial dealings with KPLC.
9. List of liabilities (Including loans, mortgages, chattels, guarantees, school fees and school accounts; cumulative insurance policies; holidays).
10. List of moveable and immovable assets owned/partly owned by the officer or the immediate family members, business associates or agents including data on acreage, location, and status (e.g. whether charged to financial institutions, joint ownership, allotment etc.) including dates of acquisition.
11. Machinery, vehicles, and other assets where the officer has a beneficial interest.
12. Power/water meter numbers; any other utility account numbers.
13. Residential address or addresses of the officer and spouse (s) for the last 5 years; ownership status of current residence.
14. Social media accounts/handles (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
15. Stocks, shares and partnerships, including investment groups of which the officer and spouse are members.