HR Audit Commitee Goes After Kitui Ghost Workers

In an effort to clean up the mess left behind by Kaluki Ngilu and her collapsed mbee nzei regime, Governor Julius Malombe has formed an HR Audit Commitee to establish the staffing status in the county. 

In a published Gazette notice, the committee known as Kitui County Human Resource Audit and Rationalization Committee will have 14 members to peruse through the employment files with a fine tooth comb. 

Its mandate is to carry out an audit of the current human resource status and advise on the optimal staffing levels for permanent, contractual and casual workers across all the departments. 

The HR Audit Commitee is going to smoke out a swarm of ghost workers planted in the system by Kaluki and her cartels and who have been fleecing the county coffers huge sums of money for services not rendered. 

Governor Malombe has insisted on a meticulous operation where every shilling meant for public use will be properly accounted for.

One of the key areas the HR Audit Commitee would want to focus its attention on is the casuals' employment. During her misadventure in office, Ngilu for instance flooded Kitui and Mwingi Level IV hospitals with thousands of causal workers, many of whom never report to work but continue drawing allowances from the public kitty.

It was also during Ngilu's infamy that the county government employed huge number of ghosts going by the title cooks yet 99% of them have never prepared tea anywhere but continue being paid from the public purse. 

It was the same case for drivers and even protocol officers, something that prompted the County Assembly to warned against ballooning and unmanageable wage bill.

Two days ago, a personnel audit conducted in Garissa County unearthed over 6000 ghost workers who have since been knocked off the government payroll and are facing possible prosecution.