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kaifastus
#11 Posted : Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:05:29 PM
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murchr wrote:
josimar wrote:
I fear there will be massive retrenchments in civil service.The debt level is about 48 % of the country's GDP and still rising. Hapo kuna shida .


Very possible, those working in Ministries that evaporated might be among those to face the axe. That of the PM, Ministry of Northern Kenya and Arid lands blabla.

I would personally want to see secretaries, teagals, messengers some drivers done away with, some of these services can be outsourced. Anyone who cant draft a letter & type in this day and age should not be in office.

I wish you had a glimse of the proportion of the wage bill per cadre...the political elite take a very big chunk! The lower cadre like support staff driver etc take a very small %. Of the proffessionals,Teachers and policemen take another significant chunk..The way forward is growth.
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Obi 1 Kanobi
#12 Posted : Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:21:00 PM
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A typical parastatal has training allowances and other useless staff costs that are higher than the basic salary, they need to focus on this cost, my bet is they can claw back upto Sh100B by simply eliminating this cost.

I have never undrstood why gava/parastatal employees need to leave their offices (which are generally 3 times the size of those in the private sector) go to a hotel accross the road to brainstorm on a task they should be doing on a day to day, and then procced to claim all manner of allowances.

They should also think of paying a basic salary at market rate and peg it to delivery of services, they can then do away with house allowance, extraneous allowance, responsibility allowance and whichever other allowance they pay to justify using up the budget.
"The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline." James Collins
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jguru
#13 Posted : Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:42:18 PM
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Procurement. That's where most of the money disappears. It is sad that government always pays the highest price for every item it tenders for. I have seen a government ministry buy a ream of photocopying paper for Ksh4500 (retail cost - Ksh350). It's ridiculous! The police bought some knock-off Chinese Chery cars for the same price of Rav4s at Toyota. Shame! Government can save billions if they streamlined procurement.
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Mainat
#14 Posted : Wednesday, May 08, 2013 3:50:23 PM
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KRA collection targe for next financial year is Ksh0.9trn (22% higher than this financial year) against Ksh1.6trn target expenditure.
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josimar
#15 Posted : Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:51:34 PM
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The government will definitely have a big challenge on how to finance its budget . Apart from revenue collection , we must be prepared to see funny taxes being loaded on us come June budget. The salary demands by MPIGS and now county assembly will definitely provide reason for teachers , nurses , doctors to demand the same.
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