Angelica _ann wrote:segemia wrote:Kausha wrote:It's very difficult to tell rank and file civil servants to take pay cuts in order to free up resources to develop the country. What GoK is forgetting is that the same civil service file rankers know very well the top dawgs who are accepting pay cuts at the higher ends will most probably be involved in collecting 'rent' from the increased development allocation and the 'rent' is enough to cover the entire annual gross salary of each of the top dawg. Where does that leave the rank and file civil servant with his/her measly pay? More poorer.
The solution to all this is to fix corruption in a very holistic and ruthless manner. We are operating a pure market system while at the same time allowing corruption to thrive. The two can't thrive together. At the moment there are quite a number of pricing bubbles in Kenya and Nairobi specifically because of corruption. Inflation on most items that high because a few people can afford to pay up which forces the rest of the population to pay up for the same goods because there is some demand of critical volumes thanks to corruption. A good number of those affording is thanks to corruption money. Everyone else is a bit under pressure to finance their purchase.
Instead of firing poor people, reform the entire GoK procurement, have a ministry of procurement that procures for the entire government and staff it with saints if you have to,otherwise we are chasing after our own tail and that means going nowhere almost all the time. You can't do pay cuts in an environment where corruption is widely practiced in the environment. Foregone incomes will just be replaced with aggression on the corruption side.
Ama this wage bill discussion is a smokescreen for the usual Cases because it doesn't make sense to me in it's current format.
My thoughts exactly. Why can't the government fix the corruption monster first? What is it afraid of?
End corruption and everything will fall into place rather easily, and probably they will not have to slash any salaries.
The boys have realised that corruption in gava is entrenched to the CORE! Cant Move, Wont Move!
The miraculous "Michuki Word" is enough to scuttle the corruption barons out of town.
Unless, of course, you are saying Uhuru and Ruto are totally entangled in the vice to the extent that they are unsalvageable. Which now begs for the question...what business do they have being in leadership if they cannot control this corruption menace...
...besides, the presence of a safe alone does not signify that there is money inside...