Governors have now committed to weed out staff with fake education certificates from public service and reduce the wage bill in counties by 35 percent.
Speaking at the Third National Wage Bill Conference held at Bomas in Nairobi, Council of Governors (COG) chair Anne Waiguru noted that counties would get rid of all staff found to have been employed using fake education certificates.
“We commit that we will also review our staff structures to ensure that they are aligned with needs and also undertake a review of education documents for staff working in County Governments. We also commit on behalf of all Governors, to weed out all individuals with fake certificates,” Waiguru announced on Wednesday, April 17.
The CoG chair disclosed that devolved units would conduct staff structure reviews for rationalization to increase productivity in the public sector.
“On behalf of my colleagues, I would like to give a commitment on the implementation of the main resolution of this conference of reducing the wage bill by 35 percent by 2027. We will endeavor to do that,” she stated.
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This comes hours after President William Ruto directed the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to move with speed and recover public resources spent on government employees with fake academic certificates.
“The 2,100 people identified who have been earning government wages and salaries should just refund the money we paid them otherwise the EACC and DCI must move with full speed to recover public resources that were spent on these people,” Ruto stated.
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