CS Ruku Announces Mass Arrests of Civil Servants Over Payroll Fraud

Kenya’s Public Service Cabinet Secretary, Geoffrey Ruku, said civil servants suspected of payroll fraud would be arrested and prosecuted within the next 30 days. He singled out the Kenya Prisons Service and warned that human resource officers implicated in adding ghost workers could lose their jobs. Ruku also threatened to publish the names of public parastatal CEOs whose organisations have not adopted the government’s human resource and payroll system, with possible sanctions including dismissal.