“Some officers are doing very interesting things where they promote themselves for duration of time and they return back to their normal category,” said Ms Waiguru.

“Some in job group P or T for example have promoted themselves for two or three months drawing salaries equal to PSs,” she added.

They have been substituting names of dead or retired employees with those of their cronies, creating a bloated service that has been costing tax payers Sh1.8 billion annually.

The complicated system where numbers of public servants are retained long after they ceased working in the public sector has been blamed on employees in charge of the payroll and those in the finance departments of Government institutions.

The administrators have been cashing in on loopholes in the public service structure and an outdated IT system that has not kept pace with developments in modern finance to ensure theft of public money goes undetected.

Waiguru is using very sweet words. How can she call outright theft 'interesting'. She is being too casual with corruption