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How idle Kenyan civil servants are drawing salaries amid huge public wage bill

Rift Valley General Hospital health workers protest at devolution of their services to the counties recently.
      Rift Valley General Hospital health workers protest at devolution of their services to the counties recently.

By GATONYE GATHURA

NAIROBI, KENYA: Ten months after elections, the Government is still paying huge salaries to idle civil servants in Nairobi, whose duties were either absorbed in merged ministries or devolved to the counties.

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