Nairobi, March 13 -- The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has become the latest State corporation to be put on the spot over skewed staff hiring.

The development comes after it emerged that the institution has continued to hire employees from some dominant ethnic communities with more than 17 tribes left out, failing the staff ethnic diversity test.

The damning state of affairs comes just days after the Public Service Commission (PSC) last week revealed nine tribes have been locked out of State jobs in which Kikuyu and Kalenjin communities have the lion's share with at least 26 percent of the positions or 27,256 out of the 75,031 slots.

The revelation came days after the courts nullified the hiring of revenue service assistants by ...