Just like Nairobi County did, the Samburu County Government on Thursday 15 began a headcount of all its employees in a bid to weed out ghost workers as well as streamline service delivery.
While supervising the exercise in Maralal town, Human Resource Director Priscilla Lenyasunya said staff members’ data including fingerprints, passports, work experience and academic certificates are being captured into a digital system.
Priscilla said the data will help her office while making decisions regarding promotions, work output, capacity building and eliminating ghost workers.
“We want to know if there are people on payroll but are not working however, the exercise is still going on though not even a single ghost worker has been identified, we want to know the number of workers we have, their qualifications and their job description,” she said.
She also added that the exercise will enable the county government identify problems that the staff members are going through as they deliver services.
The workers, on their part, supported the move saying that it will help them be promoted.
Audits in all counties have revealed the presence of ghost workers who are siphoning public fund and yet do not work.
According to report that was released in 2013, Nairobi County, for instance, was found to be losing about Sh 100 million paid to over 2000 workers whose identities are not traceable.
