The Public Service Commission (PSC) in its annual report for the period under review says out of 192,488 employees on payrolls of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), 188,311 officers declared their wealth in line with the Public Ethics Act of 2003.
The act requires all State officers to submit reports on their incomes, bank deposits and assets like land, real estate and vehicles once every two years.
The reports also capture the wealth of their spouses and children below 18 years.
Some 4,177 civil servants face sanctions, including fines of up to Sh1 million each after they failed to declare their wealth in the year ended June, a report tabled in Parliament shows.
The Public Service Commission (PSC) in its annual report for the period under review says out of 192,488 employees on payrolls of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), 188,311 officers declared their wealth in line with the Public Ethics Act of 2003.
The act requires all State officers to submit reports on their incomes, bank deposits and assets like land, real estate and vehicles once every two years. The reports also capture the wealth of their spouses and children below 18 years.
Those who breach the wealth declaration requirement risk fines of up to Sh1 million or a year in jail.
The MDAs were required to furnish PSC with information on the sanctions meted out on the public servants before June 30, 2020.
“Administrative disciplinary action was recommended against the 4,177 officers who did not comply and the confirmation of sanctions meted by MDAs on officers was to be availed by end of June 2020,” says the PSC in the report.
The PSC further sought clarifications on 3,180 officers out of the 188,311 who complied pointing to information gaps in some of the wealth declaration forms submitted.
The report shows officers in 29 State corporations did not declare their wealth. The country has 51 MDAs, 218 corporations and one commission.
Wealth declaration forms are important tools that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) uses to detect corruption by individual public officers.
The EACC monitors the declaration of income, assets and liabilities of the officers, which it uses to track down those involved in shadowy dealings where their declared wealth does match their salaries and other sources of income.
The Public Officer Ethics Act also requires everyone joining the public service to make wealth declarations within 30 days of assuming State or public office.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has over the years backed lifestyle audits on holders of public offices to curb corruption, which is estimated to gobble a third of the national Budget every year.
Mr Kenyatta in mid-June 2018 said all public servants, including himself, would be subjected to lifestyle audits to catch and root out those who had stolen from taxpayers using their offices.
The State has in since last year stepped up the war on graft, with dozens of top State officers including Cabinet Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and CEOs of State agencies taken to court over flawed tenders used to loot billions of taxpayer funds.
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