City Hall, Nairobi. City residents could soon begin paying rates and garbage collection fees through their residents associations if a draft Bill is adopted by the Assembly. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
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The payroll clean-up will also help City Hall deal with the problem of ghost workers that has dogged the county for decades.
A recent audit revealed that City Hall was losing more than Sh100 million every month in salaries paid to more than 2,000 fake workers.
City Hall and State House will this morning kick off the government plan to register civil servants afresh in an attempt to weed out ghost workers.
The headcount, which will include ministry staff and county workers, will be supervised by consultancy firm Ernst and Young and run in Nairobi for two weeks before extending to the remaining 46 counties from September 15.
The public workers would be required to present documents like birth certificates IDs, certificates, letters of appointment and promotion letters where applicable at the specified centres.
They will also be required to fill a biometric form which will contain their facial image and finger prints taken by a special kit. This will help the government establish whether staff records in its system match those presented physically by the workers.
“The President’s details will be captured this morning in Mombasa. The Deputy President and five ministers will also be involved tomorrow (today),” Mary Ndeto, a commissioner at the Transition Authority told the Business Daily in a phone interview.
President Uhuru Kenyatta in January disclosed that taxpayers lose an estimated Sh1.8 billion every year in salary payments to non-existent workers in the Civil Service, sparking a public outcry. The audit unearthed that the government burns Sh150 million monthly in salaries for workers who are non-existent, dead, retired or sacked, but were still retained in the ballooning State payroll.
The payroll clean-up will also help City Hall deal with the problem of ghost workers that has dogged the county for decades. A recent audit revealed that City Hall was losing more than Sh100 million every month in salaries paid to more than 2,000 fake workers.
The new staff registration is part of the measures to better manage the government’s bloated wage bill, which consumes more than half of annual tax revenue.
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