Besides adjusting salaries, more should be done regarding the bloat. The Gov machinery needs to be very efficient, but that will not happen without an overhaul / study / audit of every organ in every sphere of the Gov. Once all processes have been defined, the next question that needs to be answered is "how can the processes be executed in the most efficient manner?"

An example: Along Mombasa Rd, have seen some people (not sure if they are permanent or casual workers), at least 20 of them, with slashers, trimming grass on uneven grounds the middle of the road or at the roads-sides. Is that the best way of doing such work? An alternative could be getting just two workers with stick trimmers and have them just walk through the grass, and the job will be done quickly and efficiently.

Basically, after all processes have been identified, simply have them executed in the most effective manner.

The reforms will obviously result with a good number of jobless individuals. What do you do with healthy adults with no jobs? It's not only about cutting costs, but it's also about multiplying income or increasing trade & exports. Train the jobless with skills for new or existing industries. Medically, we are understaffed, maybe under-qualified, and definitely, under-equipped. Agriculturally, we are under-producing (See how much California is producing http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/ ). In scientific and Technological R&D, we are almost nowhere on radar, and this is due to Ke's educational system, more specifically, tertiary education, thus the public educational system must be part of the overhaul. Education is perhaps the most important for obvious reasons.

Ouru sounds very honest in this debate. I hope he now takes action so that as we discuss the Wage Bill, we shall have the other wastages cut down.

They should start with themselves,the cars the foreign trips the,the other day Ruto went to I believe Kinsasha with a chartered Embraer that only had 28 people,a 96 sitter plane...wastage galore

Wage cuts enforced by government may actually raise costs in the mid and long terms because governments have less control over how markets work especially in our globalized context.

The key to a lower wage bill would involve releasing day to day politics to market forces. For example, political parties should fund themselves from the profits they make out of selling real products to the people. Even lawmaking can be structured in a market friendly way so that even Mp's can pay themselves while the citizens also earn from these laws.

No big deal, they will recover the same in a stroke of a pen. Cost of doing business may however rise considerably....