Civil servants face early retirement, State reveals in letter to IMF

Chief of Staff and Head of Civil Service Joseph Kinyua shows his new biometric card last year outside Harambee House. This was during the start of biometric data capture exercise aimed at rationalising the public service. [Photo: File/Standard]

Some civil servants will soon be forced to take early retirement as part of the Government’s plan to cut the ballooning wage bill.

In the staff rationalisation programme that started in March, the Government has been looking at various options in trimming the wage bill, a process that saw it carry out an employee audit to weed out ghost workers.