Kisii County employees sort out their academic credentials before submitting them to an audit firm staff who are doing the headcount at Kisii Agricultural Training Center on November 18, 2022. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

Last year EACC launched probe into alleged insurance fraud and staff numbers' inflation at the Kisii County government after Governor Simba Arati alleged that there were ghost workers at the county government.

Arati said Kisii County Government had 82 vehicles yet there were some 256 drivers on the payroll.

Arati further revealed that he would spend some Sh10 million on the verification of academic certificates for all of his staff.

he said the exercise would be conducted for the 5,900 county employees at half the normal rates charged by the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec).

The governor said some of the staff had presented fake documents for their employment in the county after presenting himself for the staff headcount exercise at Kisii Agricultural Centre.