Civil servants who missed biometric registration struck off payroll
A civil servant goes through biometric registration in Nyeri on September 24, 2014. Over 12,500 names of government employees who failed to show up for the biometric registration will be removed from the payroll beginning November 2014. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The government payroll stands at 172,522 employees but only 160,012 people turned up for the drive.
If it turns out that those who failed to register were ghost workers, then the government has been losing Sh600 million per month in paying salaries and allowances.
This also means that taxpayers have been losing up to Sh7.2 billion a year, a factor that has contributed to the ballooning wage bill.
The figure is higher than the Sh1.8 billion per year that President Uhuru Kenyatta said the government was losing when he launched an audit to weed out the ghost workers.
Over 12,500 names of government employees will be struck off the payroll beginning November after they failed to show up for the biometric registration.
The government payroll stands at 172,522 employees, but according to Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru, only 160,012 people turned up for the drive.
