The Kisumu County Government has defended the latest payment mode where all county government staff are required to present documentation to access their January salary.
County Governor Jack Ranguma said the move is aimed at eliminating ghost workers who continue to fleece the county millions of shillings.
Ranguma said the county government is now embarking on the second audit of its human resource after the national government conducted an audit of the pay roll for its workers.
“This is the only way to ensure the county is paying the correct staff, it is an exercise that will be routinely done to weed out these ghost workers,” he said.
Speaking to the press in Kisumu after meeting health workers who were against the mode of payment, the governor said he reached a consensus with the health workers that the step taken is to weed out ghost workers.
Ranguma said no county staff should feel suspicious about the new mode of payment noting that it will be a routine to be able to pay the correct number of county staff.
He announced that since the exercise commenced, they have been able to detect an anomaly where salary had been paid to a staff who died a year ago.
“I am happy that the exercise has detected that the county has been paying a staff that died a year ago,” he said.
The county had designated centres where county staff was required to present their national identity card, first letter of appointment, current letter of appointment and latest copy of salary slip to be able to receive their January salary.