Perks push up pay for State staff despite freeze in salary raise

Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Civil servants used unregulated allowance to increase their pay 13.5 percent or by Sh42.7 billion in an environment where their salary increases have been frozen.

Controller of Budget (CoB) data shows that taxpayers spent Sh358.49 billion in the nine months to March, up from Sh315.76 billion in the same period a year earlier.

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