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Kisumu County using salaries to identify ghost workers

Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru (standing) witnesses as deputy governor
Ruth Odinga’s Biometric Data is registered during an exercise launched last
year to bring down the wage bill by weeding out ghost workers. [FILE]

KISUMU: The county has stepped up its push to weed out ghost workers by requiring its more than 3,400 employees to collect their January salaries at their respective workstations.

This will be the first time county workers physically pick their pay from their supervisors since it has always been wired to their individual bank accounts.

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