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Streamlining civil service welcome, but calls for caution

On Monday, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru launched the Capacity Assessment and Rationalisation Programme aimed at restructuring and making the Civil Service more productive.

This programme aims at assessing competence with a view to re-train, redeploy or transfer staff to other areas where they could excel.
It should not, however, be lost on many that the underlying reason behind all this could be the concern over an unsustainable public wage bill.

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