How Treasury plans to kill civil servants’ travel appetite

President Uhuru Kenyatta boards the plane for a visit to the US. The President and Members of Parliament are some of the most travelled public servants. [File, Standard]

Domestic and foreign travel are a lucrative source of income for public servants, with the Government spending billions every year in paying its employees allowances, which in many instances have not been commensurate with work done.

During such trips, civil servants spend huge amounts of money, knowing well they would present receipts to their accounting departments to justify their expenditure for reimbursements.