County governments processed Sh11.99 billion of wages and emoluments through manual systems other than the prescribed electronic payroll technically known as the Integrated Payroll Personnel Database (IPPD), exposing taxpayers to loss of cash, a new report shows.
The report by the Controller of Budget (CoB) Margaret Nyakang’o says a majority of the counties used manual systems to process payroll which is prone to abuse. The electronic payroll seeks to end the practice where corrupt officials claim salaries on behalf of “ghost employees” — workers who have died, retired or deserted their duties — by restricting pay allocation to those in the core electronic payroll.
