Revealed: Kenya’s civil servants face the sack

Letter jointly signed by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Central Bank of Kenya Governor Patrick Njoroge pointed to the startup of a process of rationalisation and redeployment.

As President Uhuru Kenyatta boarded a flight to New York Thursday, where he will attend the 70^th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, the irony of life could not have been more poignant for him, considering his last trip to the US aborted midair in April under controversial circumstances.

The diplomatic paper work to ensure an uneventful flight might have been in order this time, but the Head of State has much more to worry about like the looming public service job cuts. It emerged Thursday that the Government wrote to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last month saying it will start the next phase of the staff rationalisation process before December, interpreted as bureaucratic reference to job losses.