State House Kenya and New Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) lead the chart of public entities with an unaccounted workforce, as the two have 975 employees on the payroll but are undocumented in the staff register. State House Kenya under President William Ruto was exposed for having 483 ghost workers. This is according to the state of compliance with values and principles in Articles 10 and 232 of the constitution’s annual report for the financial year 2022/2023 released by the Public Service Commission. According to the report, the staff registers across government agencies indicated an excess of 19,467 personnel compared to the approved filled vacancies. “There was an excess of 19,467 members of staff recorded in the staff registers against those reported in the approved filled vacancies. Six organisations had high disparities with an excess of over 100 members of staff compared to the staff recorded in the staff register. Two of the organisations (State House and New Kenya Cooperative Creameries) had a disparity of 483 and 492 respectively,” the report stated. Which other organisations had excess staff? The report further disclosed that 15 organisations exceeded the approved staff levels, with five having a surplus of personnel exceeding 50%. These were the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) (115%), National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority (72%) and State Department for Devolution (61%). Others were the State Department for Higher Education and Research (69%) and State Department for Immigration and Citizen Services (59%). What is the government’s recurrent expenditure? President William Ruto’s government proposed a KSh 3.67 trillion budget funded by taxpayers and grants. This increased to KSh 3.9 trillion after the approval of the supplementary budget for the 2023/2023 financial year. The government planned to spend KSh 2.5 trillion on recurrent expenditure while development was allocated KSh 769.3 billion. The recurrent expenditure was later increased by KSh 90.7 billion, while development expenditure declined by over KSh 40 billion.
BY TUKO NEWS