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Kenya Kwanza's approach to the wage bill crisis could be better

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President William Ruto and SRC Chair Lynn Mengich during the Third National Wage Bill Conference in Bomas of Kenya. [PCS]

Last week the government spent time and money discussing its wage bill crisis. Between decades, the wage bill tends to be ignored, until it is recalled in ten-year intervals.

Twenty years ago, the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) faced a wage bill crisis following Kanu's "handover note" in the form of a massive pay increase for teachers. A decade ago, it was the Jubilee administration arguing "wage bill" when the self-same teachers loudly returned to the negotiating table.

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