Is there crisis in public service over retirements? - Kenyans react

I am not seeing any crisis here. This is something we should have anticipated and prepared for on the first day a letter of appointment was issued to these soon-to-retire civil servants. Still, it is an opportunity to employ fresh, more efficient, nimble, and vibrant staff to replace the retired ones and triple productivity to cater for the huge expenditure.

-Dunde Wycliff

The retirement process should wait until after the elections. There are too many moving parts in the current administration confounded by the upcoming hotly contested elections and some within the current administration may not operate in good faith, given the uncertainty on who becomes president in a couple of months. The country cannot retire thousands of Kenyans and expect a transparent process in an electioneering year.

-Chebusit Laboso

The crisis is the thousands of jobless youth, not some retiring civil servants, most of whom, by the way, have one year's experience for 30 years. Most are entrenched in seasoned graft.

-James Akai

Where is the crisis? Civil servants have been retiring even before independence and afterwards. Somebody is hallucinating about a crisis, which is not there.

-Mary Macharia

Companies are closing down, foreign investors relocating their business to other countries, local investors hiring people based on their last name, businesses running into losses. The Government, on the other hand, is forcing its servants to retire. Where is our country heading to?

-David Mwatela

That is less compared to the unimaginable amount of money that goes to the few selected pockets in the Government. Don't even get me started on the crazy salaries our 'leaders' get. No crisis here.

-Samuel Pompey