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Shocking cost for trimming a bloated workforce

Kenyan taxpayers may have to pay a staggering Sh185 billion to compensate early retirees in the public sector, in a planned staff rationalisation that is already running a year behind schedule.

The huge cost is the price for past mistakes committed in massive recruitment by the national and county governments who are now stuck with a bloated workforce.

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