Treasury faces expenditure crisis as 20,000 Kenya’s civil servants set to retire

Retired President  Mwai Kibaki receives a gift from Chief Justice Willy Mutunga at the Supreme Court, in Nairobi during a farewell party in his honour.[PHOTO: STANDARD]

NAIROBI, KENYA: James Mwangi Itothe retires in July, ending his 33-year-long career at the Judiciary when he reaches 60, the mandatory retirement age for civil servants.

In 1981 at the age of 27, Itothe, from Kiambu County, was employed as a clerk in the Judiciary, where he has worked since. “Although I earned an average salary, I am at peace with what I have done. I have taken my children to school and served my country,” he said.