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Hiring civil servants on contract will fuel corruption, experts say

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COTU Coast region Secretary, Gideon Mutiso [centre] listens to members of Voice of Salvation healing church at Tudor in Mombasa on April 28, 2024. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

The proposal to scrap permanent and pensionable positions in public service may not address the bloated wage bill, experts say.

Instead, such a decision may lead to poorer civil servants, particularly lower cadre staff. This is even as academic literature shows the possibility of improved services when employment terms are contractually compared to permanent and pensionable.

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