Kenya’s top two per cent eating half of our revenue

In his State of the Nation Address, President Uhuru Kenyatta alluded to 2 per cent of the Kenyan population that takes half of the national revenues in salaries and allowances.

Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) chairperson Sarah Serem had alluded to the same earlier. With a population of about 45 million, Kenya has about 718,400 public sector employees.