Employed Kenyan civil servants drowning in liquor, illicit drugs, reports indicate

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Government documents show that 38 per cent of government employees, or approximately 266,000 public servants, are addicted to drugs and have compromised service delivery in the public sector.

A draft policy from the Interior Ministry warned that drug addiction has affected employee's mental health, undermined welfare of families and denied the country value for money.
"Where an employee is declared medically unfit to continue working, the department shall hasten the exit process. Whenever an employee retires or dies due to ADA or related causes, the Department shall facilitate terminal benefits for the next of kin as per the existing Human Resource Management guidelines," the draft policy dubbed Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ADA) at the Workplace said.