Cabinet approves reforms after audit finds 4.7m altered payroll records

 President William Ruto chairs a cabinet meeting at State House, Nairobi. [PCS]

Cabinet has approved sweeping payroll reforms following a special audit that uncovered widespread manipulation of 4.7 million records by 720 system editors within the Government Human Resource Information System-Kenya (HRIS-K).

The audit of the 2024-2025 financial year disclosed failures in governance, integrity and cybersecurity, with instances of staff editing their own records without audit trails and the absence of basic cybersecurity safeguards.