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It's interesting what a daily allowance of Sh4 can do to a broke clerical officer. Though it may not sound like much today, such an offer motivated a middle level civil servant to beg for a transfer from Voi to the harsh Turkana, more than 1,000 kilometres away.
Today, as the new Cabinet Secretary for Public Service and Gender, Aisha Jumwa mulls on how to increase salaries of civil servants, she may be motivated to make a quick decision by the travails of one clerical officer who once worked near her home county in Kilifi 73 yeas ago.
It all started as a joke between two unmarried clerical officers who discovered that they had ran out cash because they had turned their bachelors' crib to an entertainment den and their salaries could no longer support this.
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