Counties flout payroll process by paying Sh15 billion wages manually

Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang'o when she appeared before Mediation Committee on the County Governments Grants Bill at Parliament, Nairobi on March 22, 2022. [David Njaaga,Standard]

County Governments are yet to adopt the use of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Database to ensure efficient processing of wage bills.

Instead, most counties are still processing employees' payroll through the manual system, hence contravening the government policy that requires salaries to be processed through the IPPD system.