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Time to take action over bloated county wage bills

Kenyan Currency in notes [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

In November 2019, the Government convened a three-day conference to discuss how to tackle Kenya’s rising public wage bill that was undermining development expenditure at both the national and county level.

As at 2018, salaries and allowances took up 48 per cent of the revenue generated by the Kenya Revenue Authority, way above the 35 per cent threshold in the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012. 

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