Public Service and Gender Cabinet Secretary Aisha Jumwa has announced that public servants will receive a salary increment in the next one hundred days.
While speaking after touring the Nairobi Huduma Centre on Monday, October 31, CS Jumwa stated that the government plans to undertake several reforms to improve service delivery across the country.
“The public service is demoralized in matters salary and other benefits, and I think in my 100 days in office I will initiate the plan to increase salaries of the public servants,” said Jumwa.
Moreover, Aisha Jumwa said she will be reviewing the county wage bill, as she dismissed claims that it is bloated despite the Senate claiming that it has passed 35 per cent threshold as required by law.
“Public service has less than a million public servants who work for 50 million Kenyans so to me that is not a bloated one,” she said.
Furthermore, in a move to upgrade service delivery in all the 47 counties, CS Jumwa noted that the ministry will review working hours for all the 52 Huduma Centers countrywide and introduce more centers.
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“Extended working hours in a number of Huduma Centers, 18 nationally including the one in G.P.O will offer highly sought services from 7AM to 7PM. Our plan is that every sub-county will have a Huduma Centre but because of the current economic times we are planning to have at least 100 in the next 5 years.” CS Jumwa said.
Nonetheless, Public Service Principal Secretary Mary Kimonye, who accompanied CS Jumwa raised concern on the uncollected identification card.
She urged Kenyans to present themselves at the center to collect their credentials.
“Right here we have a backlog of 33,000 uncollected IDs and about 3,000 birth certificates and smart licenses so we ask the wananchi to come collect them,” Kimonye stated.